OpenTelemetry Collector + Prometheus + Grafana: A First Stack That Actually Diagnoses
A first OTel Collector, Prometheus, and Grafana lab: OTLP in, Prometheus scrape out, and a break-one-signal drill with measured PromQL.
29 Sept 202610 min read
A first OTel Collector, Prometheus, and Grafana lab: OTLP in, Prometheus scrape out, and a break-one-signal drill with measured PromQL.
Average latency hides tail pain. Learn when mean lies, how p50/p95/p99 work, why averaging quantiles fails, and how Prometheus histograms fix aggregation.