Logs are a critical part of monitoring and debugging modern applications. By integrating OpenTelemetry logs with Grafana using Loki and Alloy, you can centralize your log data, making it easier to analyze and monitor your .NET applications. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the setup process and share how these tools...

Grafana is an open-source analytics and monitoring platform that allows you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics data. It is a popular tool for monitoring systems, applications, and services in real-time. In this post, I will guide you through setting up Grafana in Docker to monitor a simple .NET API. Setting...

A long time ago in my SysAdmin days, I was a big fan of Nagios . Recently, I decided to revisit it and see if I could run it in a Docker container to monitor my local network. This guide will walk you through the process of setting up Nagios monitoring using Docker. Finding a Docker Image for Nagios First, we need to...