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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 about how Prometheus can integrate with a variety of remote storage systems through the remote read and remote write protocols. We made that practical by deploying two popular remote storage backends: VictoriaMetrics and Mimir. Both can be used to extend Prometheus far beyond what simple federation is capable of in order to support advanced use cases involving the multi-tenancy and long-term storage of Prometheus metrics.

In our next chapter, we’re going to look at another popular open source project that integrates with Prometheus: Thanos. It integrates with remote storage protocols but also can be used for a whole lot more.

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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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