Practical guide to Asynq, the task queue in Go on Redis: priorities, retries with backoff, scheduling, cron, deduplication, graceful shutdown, CLI, Asynqmon panel, Prometheus, and systemd, tested with Redis 8 and Valkey 8.
When a service starts failing, the signals are usually scattered: metrics in Prometheus, logs in another backend, traces in a third tool, and alerts without context. OpenObserve aims to bring this work together in an open-source platform for logs, metrics, traces, RUM, dashboards, alerts, and incidents. Written in Rust, it queries logs and traces with … Read more
A server without monitoring only tells you it is down when someone complains. With Node Exporter, each host exposes Linux metrics; Prometheus collects and stores them as time series for queries and alerts. This guide uses Ubuntu packages where available, avoids exposing metrics to the internet, and validates each step before continuing. The … Read more
