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External Secrets Operator Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
The External Secrets Operator (ESO) syncs secrets from external providers like AWS Secrets Manager, Vault, or GCP Secret Manager into Kubernetes Secret objects. If a SecretStore loses its...
Adin Hodovic
Sept. 27, 2026 / 3 min read
Vault Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Vault is usually on the critical path for database credentials, PKI, application secrets, and service authentication. If Vault is sealed, has no active node, or starts returning 5xx responses, applications …
Adin Hodovic
May 21, 2026 / 4 min read
Kubernetes, Docker, and Tailscale service discovery dashboard with Compass
Kubernetes, Docker, and tailnet services often end up split across ingress objects, container labels, private DNS names, Grafana dashboards, runbooks, and a self-hosted homepage that has to be updated by …
Adin Hodovic
May 12, 2026 / 8 min read
Django tracing with OpenTelemetry
Getting distributed tracing working in Django usually means stitching together OpenTelemetry SDK setup, Django instrumentation, OTLP export, database and Redis hooks, outbound HTTP tracing, and Celery propagation. This post walks …
Adin Hodovic
April 5, 2026 / 5 min read
Karpenter Monitoring: Spot Savings and Node Pool Cost Breakdown
Karpenter now exposes enough pricing data to estimate Kubernetes node costs directly from Prometheus metrics. The existing Karpenter dashboards in the kubernetes-autoscaling-mixin alre...
Adin Hodovic
April 5, 2026 / 4 min read
Managing multiple AI coding sessions with ai-dash
Managing multiple AI coding sessions gets messy fast once you use more than one tool. Sessions end up scattered across local transcript files, JSONL logs, and SQLite databases. Finding an …
Adin Hodovic
April 4, 2026 / 5 min read
Argo Workflows monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Argo Workflows exposes enough metrics to see whether workflows are backing up, CronWorkflows are firing, and the controller is keeping up, but raw /metrics output does not make any of …
Adin Hodovic
April 4, 2026 / 4 min read
Monitoring Go runtime with Prometheus and Grafana
Go applications expose a useful set of runtime metrics, but raw /metrics output does not make it easy to spot GC pressure, scheduler latency, memory growth, or file descriptor exhaustion. …
Adin Hodovic
March 25, 2026 / 4 min read
Introducing django-o11y: traces, logs, metrics, and profiling for Django and Celery
Over the years I've written several blog posts covering different parts of Django observability - Django Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, [Django Development and Produ...
Adin Hodovic
March 8, 2026 / 6 min read
Reducing Google API Egress Costs with a Simple DNS Change
I enabled Private Google Access (PGA) so our private GKE workloads could reach Google APIs without public node IPs. Everything “worked,” but when I dug into billing and flow logs, …
Adin Hodovic
Feb. 7, 2026 / 4 min read