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Observability vs Monitoring: Why Your Green Dashboard is Lying to You

In 2017, seeing 'OK' on Nagios isn't enough. Discover why high-performance DevOps teams in Norway are shifting from passive monitoring to active observability using ELK, Prometheus, and KVM-backed infrastructure.

Beyond Green Lights: Why "Monitoring" Failed You at 3 AM (And How Observability Saves the Day)

It is May 2017. Your Nagios dashboard says everything is fine, but customers are screaming on Twitter. Here is why traditional monitoring is dead, and how to build an observability stack on Norwegian infrastructure.

The Black Box Problem: Architecting Real-Time APM for High-Traffic Systems in Norway

Latency kills conversion. In this technical deep dive, we dismantle the 'black box' of server performance using Prometheus, Grafana, and kernel-level tuning. Learn how to spot I/O bottlenecks and CPU steal time before your customers do.

Beyond Green Lights: Why Standard Monitoring Fails High-Traffic Norwegian Ops (And How to Fix It)

Nagios says the server is up. Your customers say the site is broken. In this deep dive, we explore the emerging shift from basic monitoring to deep system observability using ELK and Prometheus, specifically tailored for the Norwegian hosting landscape in 2017.

Infrastructure Monitoring at Scale: Beyond Ping and into the Kernel

Stop relying on passive checks. In 2017, 'up' is not enough. We implement active metrics scraping with Prometheus and Grafana on Ubuntu 16.04 to visualize real bottlenecks.

Beyond Nagios: Why "Green" Status Lights Are Lying About Your Infrastructure

It is March 2017. The era of simple uptime checks is dead. Discover how to move from passive monitoring to active observability using Prometheus, ELK, and raw kernel metrics on high-performance Linux VDS.

Stop Trusting Green Dashboards: Moving From Monitoring to Observability on Linux Systems

Why your '100% Uptime' status page is a lie, and how to use the ELK Stack and Prometheus to actually see what your servers are doing. A guide for Norwegian DevOps professionals in 2017.

Stop Trusting Ping: Real Infrastructure Monitoring at Scale (2017 Edition)

Alert fatigue and steal time are silent killers. We explore how to build a robust Prometheus & Grafana stack on CentOS 7 to catch what simple ping checks miss, specifically tailored for the Norwegian hosting landscape.

Surviving the Spike: High-Fidelity Infrastructure Monitoring in 2016

Stop relying on passive Nagios checks. Learn how to implement active metric collection using Prometheus 1.0 and Grafana 4.0 to detect bottlenecks before your Norway VPS crashes.

Monitoring is Dead: Why Green Dashboards Don't Save Servers

Nagios checks might turn green, but your users are still seeing 504 errors. It's time to move from binary monitoring to deep instrumentation with Prometheus and ELK on high-IOPS infrastructure.

Stop Monitoring, Start Observing: Why Your Green Dashboard is Lying to You

It is August 2016, and the old way of monitoring servers is dead. 'Is it up?' is the wrong question. We dive into the shift towards whitebox monitoring, ELK stacks, and Prometheus 1.0 to debug the 'unknown unknowns' on your VPS.

Beyond Nagios: Why "Green Lights" Lie and Deep Systems Introspection Saves Jobs

In 2016, a green status icon is not enough. Learn why traditional monitoring fails high-load systems, how to implement 'Whitebox' monitoring with Prometheus 1.0 and ELK, and why NVMe storage is the bottleneck you didn't know you had.

Monitoring Tells You You're Screwed. Observability Tells You Why.

Nagios alerts might wake you up, but they won't fix your code. In the era of Docker and microservices, we explore the shift from binary monitoring to deep system observability using ELK, Prometheus, and high-performance infrastructure.

Ditch Nagios: Monitoring Docker Microservices with Prometheus in 2015

Monolithic monitoring tools like Nagios fail in dynamic Docker environments. Learn how to deploy Prometheus (v0.14) for multidimensional metrics, why pull-based monitoring wins for microservices, and why your storage I/O matters more than you think.