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Monitoring Elasticsearch and OpenSearch Clusters with Prometheus Exporter and Grafana: Tracking Index Health, Query Latency, and System Resources

A practical guide to monitoring Elasticsearch and OpenSearch clusters with Prometheus Exporter and Grafana, covering a comparison of approaches, elasticsearch_exporter setup, and alert configuration for JVM heap, unassigned shards, and disk watermark. Hard-won lessons from 6 months running 50 million documents in production.
Monitoring tutorial - IT technology blog

Grafana Tempo: Setting Up Distributed Tracing and Integrating Loki + Prometheus in a Single Grafana

I once spent 3 hours debugging a slow request without finding the bottleneck — that's what pushed me to set up Grafana Tempo. This article walks through installing Tempo with Docker Compose, connecting it to Loki and Prometheus, and configuring OpenTelemetry from Python so that from a single trace ID you can jump straight to logs and metrics in just a few clicks.