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Syncthing Monitoring with Grafana
Syncthing is a popular open-source file synchronization tool that allows users to securely sync files across multiple devices. Monitoring Syncthing is crucial to ensure that your files are being synchronized …
Adin Hodovic
Oct. 16, 2025 / 3 min read
Visualizing your Tailnet in Grafana
Tailscale is a popular VPN solution that allows you to create secure, encrypted connections between devices. It is based on the WireGuard protocol and is designed to be easy to …
Adin Hodovic
Oct. 11, 2025 / 8 min read
Cluster Autoscaler Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Cluster autoscaler is a popular tool for automatically adjusting the size of a Kubernetes cluster based on the current workload. It helps ensure that your applications have enough resources to …
Adin Hodovic
Aug. 29, 2025 / 3 min read
KEDA Monitoring With Prometheus and Grafana
KEDA is a tool that provides event-driven autoscaling for Kubernetes, allowing you to scale your applications based on external metrics. It uses the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to adjust …
Adin Hodovic
Aug. 20, 2025 / 5 min read
Promoting Environments in GitOps Using GitHub Releases and SemVer
In modern DevOps workflows, GitOps has emerged as a powerful model for managing infrastructure and application deployments using Git as the single source of truth. One common challenge in GitOps …
Adin Hodovic
June 13, 2025 / 6 min read
Proactive Kubernetes Budget Alerts Using Prometheus
Not long ago, I shared how to monitor Kubernetes costs using OpenCost, Prometheus, and Grafana. In this follow-up, I want to highlight a specific feature: setting up proactive budget alerts …
Adin Hodovic
June 13, 2025 / 3 min read
GKE on a Budget: Disabling Expensive Defaults for Leaner Clusters
A while back, I wrote a blog post on creating a low-cost managed Kubernetes cluster. The solution centers around Google Kubernetes Engines's (GK...
Adin Hodovic
March 23, 2025 / 6 min read
Kubernetes Events Monitoring with Loki, Alloy, and Grafana
Kubernetes events offer valuable insights into the activities within your cluster, providing a comprehensive view of each resource's status. While they're beneficial for debugging individual resources, they often face challenges …
Adin Hodovic
March 16, 2025 / 6 min read
Great Linux System Trays
Finding quality system trays for Linux can be challenging due to limited documentation and scattered resources. However, there are several great system tray options available for Linux users. This blog …
Adin Hodovic
Jan. 18, 2025 / 2 min read
Karpenter Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
With the release of Karpenter v1 we have stable Prometheus metrics, but the Grafana dashboards are not that great and there are no open source alerts. Therefore, I decided to …
Adin Hodovic
Jan. 13, 2025 / 4 min read