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# Blog posts tagged "observability"

#### [Building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector](https://canonical.com/blog/building-a-dry-run-mode-for-the-opentelemetry-collector)

Teams continuously deploy programmable telemetry pipelines to production, without having access to a dry-run mode. At the same time, most organizations lack staging environments that resemble production – especially with regards to observability and other platform-level services. Despite knowing the potential risks involved due to the lac

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Observability

#### [Ubuntu AI podcast: Understanding MLOps and Observability](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-ai-podcast-understanding-mlops-and-observability)

Ubuntu AI podcast Welcome to Ubuntu AI podcast! From fun experiments to enterprise projects, AI became the center of attention when it comes to innovation, digital transformation and optimisatation. Open source technologies democratised access to state of the art machine learning tools and opened doors for everyone ready to embark on thei

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AI

#### [ML Observability: what, why, how](https://canonical.com/blog/ml-observability)

Note: This post is co-authored by Simon Aronsson, Senior Engineering Manager for Canonical Observability Stack. AI/ML is moving beyond the experimentation phase. This involves a shift in the way of operating because productising AI involves many sophisticated processes. Machine learning operations (MLOps) is a new practice that ensures ML

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AI

#### [Observability vs. monitoring debate: An irreverent view](https://canonical.com/blog/observability-vs-monitoring-debate-an-irreverent-view)

This post provides an irreverent view on the debate around observability vs. monitoring, which is a rather confounding topic.

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Observability

#### [Canonical Observability Stack: Reimagining observability with MicroK8s and Grafana, Prometheus and Grafana Loki](https://canonical.com/blog/lma-2-modern-observability-with-juju-by-charming-the-grafana-ecosystem)

Note: This post is co-authored by Jon Seager. Jon Seager is the Vice President of Enterprise Engineering at Canonical with responsibility for Juju, the Charmed Operator Framework, and several charmed operator development teams which operate across different software flavors, including observability, data platform, MLOps, identity, and mor

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Charms

#### [Model-driven observability: Embedded Alert Rules](https://canonical.com/blog/model-driven-observability-part-4-embedded-alert-rules)

Learn does’, dont’s and gotchas of Prometheus alert rules, and how to embed alert rules in your Juju charms.

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Charms

#### [Model-driven observability: Taming alert storms](https://canonical.com/blog/model-driven-observability-part-3-taming-alert-storms)

Model-driven observability and its strong notion of topology provide easy-to-apply alert management capabilities to avoid alert storms and help find root causes faster.

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#### [Model-driven observability: the magic of Juju topology for metrics](https://canonical.com/blog/model-driven-observability-part-2-juju-topology-metrics)

Learn how model-driven observability with Juju can drastically improve the quality of the insights you get from your monitoring telemetry.

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#### [Model-driven observability: modern monitoring with Juju](https://canonical.com/blog/model-driven-observability-part-1)

Learn how you can drastically simplify the monitoring setup for systems, reduce its ongoing maintenance costs and increase the actionability of your insights with Juju.

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Charms