[HN Gopher] How the open source Caddy server uses Grafana Cloud ...
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       How the open source Caddy server uses Grafana Cloud for full-stack
       observability
        
       Author : m_sahaf
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-02-21 18:30 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | ttymck wrote:
       | I'd have preferred more technical details. But it's interesting
       | to get a sense of the rather "cowboy" (in a positive sense)
       | approach of the caddy maintainers for their "online" service
       | offering (a build server).
        
         | m_sahaf wrote:
         | > I'd have preferred more technical details.
         | 
         | There isn't much technical details to it. Caddy exposes
         | profiles by default[0] and prometheus metrics are available as
         | opt-in. We set up grafana-agent to collect profiles and metrics
         | from Caddy, poked at the Grafana Cloud portal, studied the
         | available data, and checked the charts for anomalies. Grafana
         | Cloud made it easy for us to get started with that without
         | having to build more infrastructure for them, which will also
         | require extra energy that can be better spent on the core of
         | our project.
         | 
         | [0]
         | https://twitter.com/MohammedSahaf/status/1760415991513637137
        
           | starkparker wrote:
           | The biggest problem in the observability space is people
           | assuming that other people know what any of this entails.
           | 
           | What "isn't much technical details" to you is required
           | information for way more people than o11y wonks (not you, but
           | more Grafana Cloud and some OTEL champions etc.) seem to
           | believe, especially around cloud/microservice metrics.
           | 
           | Prometheus and PromQL especially are opaque and hard to start
           | using. The bar of entry to understanding how it can solve
           | problems is higher than it looks from the inside, especially
           | when you have account managers in your ear making sure _you_
           | know.
        
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