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18 May
INCIDENT

Writing runbooks your alerts can actually link to

A runbook nobody can find during an incident might as well not exist. Link it from the alert itself, and structure it so it is...

Priya Raman May 18 2026 2 min
09 May
INCIDENT

Assembling a request timeline from three signal types by hand

Before reaching for an automated view, it is worth knowing how to build a request timeline manually, trace, logs, and metrics,...

Arjun Mehta May 9 2026 2 min
01 May
DASHBOARDS

Building a golden-signals dashboard from scratch

Latency, traffic, errors, saturation. Four panels, one query shape each, and a service has a dashboard that answers the first...

Tomás Rivera May 1 2026 2 min
28 Apr
LOGS

Structured logging conventions that make queries fast

A log line that is just a formatted string is a log line HelixQL has to parse at query time, every time. A few naming...

Priya Raman Apr 28 2026 2 min
22 Apr
OPENTELEMETRY

Configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector for Helix

You do not have to send telemetry directly from every service. Running a Collector in front of Helix buys batching, retry, and a...

Priya Raman Apr 22 2026 2 min
16 Apr
METRICS

Turning on continuous profiling for a Go service

CPU and memory profiles usually get pulled manually, after something is already on fire. Continuous profiling keeps them running...

Tomás Rivera Apr 16 2026 2 min
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