Issue 276
An emphasis on more challenging observability tactics and problems this week. Plus you know I’m always happy to see network monitoring in the conversation. Enjoy! 🌞🐶💖
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From The Community
eBPF Map Metrics Prometheus Exporter
Monitoring changes in an eBPF map remains an elusive goal but I enjoyed learning how this engineer is trying to tackle the problem space.
Powerful Visibility with Rust, Lambda, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry
The title pretty much says it all. An excellent post for anyone working with Lambdas written in Rust.
Unveiling the Power Duo: osquery and osctrl
A deep dive on two popular open source projects for system introspection and monitoring. Chances are you’re familiar with osquery, but you might not be aware of the osctrl tool for centralized management of osquery agents.
I’m not personally experienced with supporting ABAP systems, but you’ll definitely want to check out this post (and the linked video within) for leveraging OTel with ABAP if that’s something you work with.
Network Observability: Beyond Metrics and Logs
A reminder of the importance of network monitoring observability along with some good and bad examples of how it’s been done.
Prometheus data source update: Redefining our big tent philosophy
An update from Grafana Labs on their latest data source developments for cloud-native managed Prometheus-compatible offerings.
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**[Detecting Deadlock with Micrometer Metrics](https://medium.com/@ruth.kurniawati/detecting-deadlock-with-micrometer-metrics-a8b71ad63cb3)**
An overview of deadlocks in Java applications and how support for monitoring them is coming in an upcoming Micrometer release.
**[Introducing Toto: A State-of-the-Art Time Series Forecasting Model](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-time-series-foundation-model/)**
Interesting review of Datadog's latest time-series foundation model, how it compares to other models, and why we should care about it.
## **Tools**
**[jmpsec/osctrl](https://github.com/jmpsec/osctrl)**
"_With osctrl you can monitor all your systems running osquery, distribute its configuration fast, collect all the status and result logs and allow you to run on-demand queries._"
**[osquery/osquery](https://github.com/osquery/osquery)**
"_SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics._"
See you next week!
-- Jason ([@obfuscurity](https://twitter.com/obfuscurity))
_Monitoring Weekly_ Editor