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Published inApr 2024
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William Hegedus
William Hegedus
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William Hegedus

William Hegedus has worked in tech for over a decade in a variety of roles, culminating in site reliability engineering. He developed a keen interest in Prometheus and observability technologies during his time managing a 24/7 NOC environment and eventually became the first SRE at Linode, one of the foremost independent cloud providers. Linode was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2022, and now Will manages a team of SREs focused on building the internal observability platform for Akamai's Connected Cloud. His team is responsible for a global fleet of Prometheus servers spanning over two dozen data centers and ingesting millions of data points every second, in addition to operating a suite of other observability tools. Will is an open source advocate and contributor who has contributed code to Prometheus, Thanos, and many other CNCF projects related to Kubernetes and observability. He lives in central Virginia with his wonderful wife, four kids, three cats, two dogs, and a bearded dragon.
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In this chapter, we learned all about Prometheus’s most popular exporter, the Node Exporter. We went over the basics of what an exporter is and what is involved in creating one. Then, we dove headfirst into the dozens of collectors that the Node Exporter enables by default. Finally, we looked at how to use the textfile collector and how to troubleshoot issues with the Node Exporter.

In our next chapter, we’re going to be stepping out of the realm of “vanilla” Prometheus and begin looking at how we can extend and augment Prometheus through the use of other open source projects. To begin, we’ll see how projects such as VictoriaMetrics and Grafana Mimir can function as remote storage for Prometheus metrics.

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805125662

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William Hegedus

William Hegedus has worked in tech for over a decade in a variety of roles, culminating in site reliability engineering. He developed a keen interest in Prometheus and observability technologies during his time managing a 24/7 NOC environment and eventually became the first SRE at Linode, one of the foremost independent cloud providers. Linode was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2022, and now Will manages a team of SREs focused on building the internal observability platform for Akamai's Connected Cloud. His team is responsible for a global fleet of Prometheus servers spanning over two dozen data centers and ingesting millions of data points every second, in addition to operating a suite of other observability tools. Will is an open source advocate and contributor who has contributed code to Prometheus, Thanos, and many other CNCF projects related to Kubernetes and observability. He lives in central Virginia with his wonderful wife, four kids, three cats, two dogs, and a bearded dragon.
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