#monitoring

After benchmarking VictoriaLogs and Loki on 500GB of logs over 7 days, we discovered VictoriaLogs delivers 94% lower query latencies, 40% smaller storage footprint, and uses less than 50% of the CPU and RAM. Here's the complete performance breakdown.

Deployed a TLS fingerprinting rule that seemed reasonable. Blocked every Chrome 119 user on Windows. The incident report was not fun to write.

A practical guide to setting up Prometheus and Grafana for production monitoring. No theory, just battle-tested configurations that actually work.