Observability - Tag - Lorenzo's Bloghttps://www.k8s.it/tags/observability/Observability - Tag - Lorenzo's BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenTue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Monitoring Contentful Usage — Building a Prometheus Exporter Because the UI Won't Tell Youhttps://www.k8s.it/posts/monitoring-contentful-usage-with-a-prometheus-exporter/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Lorenzo Girardihttps://www.k8s.it/posts/monitoring-contentful-usage-with-a-prometheus-exporter/

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Problem
  • The Architecture
  • How It Works
  • CLI Mode — One-Shot Reports
  • Prometheus Mode — Continuous Monitoring
  • Deploying on Kubernetes with Helm
  • Grafana Dashboards
  • Security Considerations
  • Conclusion
  • Reflections

Here we are. If you’ve ever managed a Contentful space at scale — I mean real scale, with thousands of entries, a dozen environments, and a team that publishes hourly — you’ve hit the wall. The Contentful web app shows you… not much. A few dashboard widgets, some high-level numbers, but nothing you can export, alert on, or trend over time.

]]>The Monitoring Paperhttps://www.k8s.it/posts/the-monitoring-paper/Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000Lorenzo Girardihttps://www.k8s.it/posts/the-monitoring-paper/

Contrary to popular belief, monitoring an infrastructure is the opposite of just having some metrics about applications and network.

There are many excellent resources on this topic. One of the most interesting is just a few pages from Google — the art of SLOs. I took the book version from a Google on-site deep dive.

To structure this properly, I want to use four simple statements:

  • WHAT
  • WHY
  • WHO
  • HOW

WHAT

This is probably the main argument we’ll discuss here.

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