Observability Tech Stack Alternatives: A Practical Guide to Metrics, Logs, and TracesHow Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, and a dozen adjacent tools fit together in a modern self-hosted stack
A practical comparison of Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, and more for building a cost-effective, self-hosted observability stack.
The Observability Logs Layer: From Structured Events to Grafana Loki DashboardsA practical guide to designing a logging pipeline with Morgan, Winston, Pino, and OpenTelemetry, shipped through Grafana Alloy into Loki, and queried with LogQL
A practical guide to building a modern logs layer: structured logging in Node.js, OpenTelemetry logs, Grafana Alloy pipelines, LogQL queries, and dashboard patterns that scale.