https://buildrunrepeat.com/categories/observability/Recent content in Observability on Build. Run. Repeat.HugoenWed, 01 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0400https://buildrunrepeat.com/posts/hashicorp-consul-k8s-service-mesh-series-02-observability/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0400https://buildrunrepeat.com/posts/hashicorp-consul-k8s-service-mesh-series-02-observability/<p>Modern service meshes require robust observability to ensure seamless operations, proactive troubleshooting, and performance optimization. In this section, we explore the observability features of HashiCorp Consul Service Mesh, including visualizing the service mesh, querying metrics, distributed tracing, and logging and auditing.</p> <hr> <h2 id="visualizing-the-service-mesh">Visualizing the Service Mesh</h2> <p>The Consul UI is used for visualizing the service mesh and its topology.</p> <p>Use the <code>watch</code> command to send requests to the application continually. Make sure HTTP status code <code>200</code> is returned in the output.</p>https://buildrunrepeat.com/posts/tkg-2-3-fixing-the-prometheus-data-source-in-the-grafana-package/Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0400https://buildrunrepeat.com/posts/tkg-2-3-fixing-the-prometheus-data-source-in-the-grafana-package/<p>With the release of TKG 2.3, the Grafana package was finally updated from version 7.5.x to 9.5.1. If you have deployed the new Grafana package (<code>9.5.1+vmware.2-tkg.1</code>) or upgraded your existing one to this version, you may have run into error messages in your Grafana dashboards.</p> <p>For example, in the <code>TKG Kubernetes cluster monitoring</code> default dashboard, you may have run into the <code>Failed to call resource</code> error when opening the dashboard and noticed that a lot of the data is missing.</p>