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Kubernetes HPA with Custom Metrics: Practical Autoscaling with Prometheus
Comprehensive guide covering Kubernetes HPA with Custom Metrics: Practical Autoscaling with Prometheus with battle-tested production examples.
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Kubernetes HPA with Custom Prometheus Metrics: Beyond CPU Scaling (2026)
Scale on HTTP req rates, queue depth, or any Prometheus metric - not just CPU. Step-by-step: install Prometheus Adapter, write HPA v2 spec, tune behavior.
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k6 Grafana Distributed Load Testing & performance Profiling
I used to think my APIs were fast until we got hit with a traffic spike. Here is how I set up distributed load testing with k6, Grafana, and Prometheus to find bottlenecks before they crash production.
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Prometheus Grafana Alerting and Burn Rate Design
Design production Prometheus and Grafana alerts using multi-window multi-burn-rate PromQL rules for service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets.