Django Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

The Prometheus package for Django provides a great Prometheus integration, but the open source dashboards and alerts that exist are not that great. The to-go Grafana dashboard does not use …

Adin Hodovic

Jan. 19, 2023 6 min read

Creating Awesome Alertmanager Templates for Slack

Prometheus, Grafana and Alertmanager is the default stack for me when deploying a monitoring system. The Prometheus and Grafana bits are well documented and there exists tons of open source …

Adin Hodovic

May 15, 2021 6 min read

Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks

The Python HTTP library requests is probably my favourite HTTP utility in all the languages I program in. It's simple, intuitive and ubiquitous in the Python community. Most of the …

Dani Hodovic

Feb. 28, 2020 8 min read

Monitoring Kubernetes InitContainers with Prometheus

Kubernetes InitContainers are a neat way to run arbitrary code before your container starts. It ensures that certain pre-conditions are met before your app is up and running.

Adin Hodovic

Nov. 30, 2019 1 min read

Kickstarting Infrastructure for Django Applications with Terraform

When creating Django applications or using cookiecutters as Django Cookiecutter you will have by default a number of dependencies that will be needed to be created as a S3 bucket, …

Adin Hodovic

Oct. 3, 2019 8 min read

Adding charts to Django admin

Django offers a functional admin UI out of the box with CRUD interface for db management. This covers most use cases for basic content and user management systems. However, it …

Dani Hodovic

Aug. 9, 2019 8 min read