Alerts that page for symptoms, and the limits of one Prometheus

Write symptom-based alerts with recording rules and error-budget burn rates, route them through Alertmanager, and learn where a single Prometheus server runs out of room. Part 3 of a series.

October 8, 2026 · 15 min · Omar Crosby

Monitoring tells you it broke; observability helps you ask why

What observability is, how it differs from monitoring, what metrics, logs, and traces each answer, and the vocabulary (SLOs, RED, USE, golden signals) to learn before you pick a tool. Part 1 of a series.

October 8, 2026 · 12 min · Omar Crosby