Guides
Monitoring guides for teams that run software.
What to watch, why it matters and how to set it up: servers, databases, Kubernetes, applications, uptime and AI costs. Each guide works with any tool and shows the steps in Televane.
Website uptime and SSL expiry monitoringHTTP, TCP, DNS and TLS checks, certificate expiry warnings and alerts that avoid false alarms.SLOs explained: error budgets and burn ratesSLIs, SLOs and error budgets with worked numbers, and burn rate alerts that page only on real risk.PostgreSQL monitoring: metrics and queriesThe PostgreSQL metrics that matter, the SQL to read them and sensible alert thresholds.OpenTelemetry Collector setup and configurationSet up and configure the OpenTelemetry Collector, with a working config.yaml and Docker command.Windows Server monitoring: metrics and thresholdsThe Windows Server metrics that matter, sensible thresholds and the built-in tools to check them.Linux server monitoring: key metrics and commandsWhat to watch on a Linux server, the commands to check it and the thresholds to alert on.LLM cost monitoring: track OpenAI API costsHow LLM token pricing works, what to measure and how to attribute AI spend to features and teams.Kubernetes monitoring: signals and alertsWhat to watch in a Kubernetes cluster, the kubectl commands to check it and what to alert on.