Kube Prometheus Stack¶

3 Ways to Time Kubernetes Job Duration for Better DevOps

Knowing how long the exucution of jobs take is a crucial part of monitoring and proactive system administration.

Being able to measure, store and query this value over the course of your application lifecycle can help you identify bottlenecks, optimize your infrastructure and improve the overall performance of your application.

In this blog post, you are presented with three methods to achive this, starting from one where you have the access and ability to modify the source code, to the one where you have control over its runtime execution, and finally without control on either & using only the Kube State Metrics.

Read more to find out how.

Unlocking the Power of VictoriaMetrics: A Prometheus Alternative

One of the main tasks of an operations team in any organization is to provide a solid and robust monitoring solution for the platform, the application, and the entire infrastructure.

Monitoring enables business owners to understand how their applications behave in a production setup, how to optimize it, and how to proactively fine-tune & forecast the future growth of the platform.

In this blog post, we will explore what Victoria Metrics has to offer, how to set it up and configure it to work as a drop-in replacement for Prometheus and a datastore for Grafana.