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29. 06. 2026 Luigi Miazzo APM, Kubernetes

Beyond Utilization: Understanding Pressure Stall Information

One of your servers is reporting moderate CPU usage, enough available memory, and storage that’s busy but not saturated. The dashboard looks healthy, the application does not. Requests to it are slowing down, background jobs are taking longer, and latency is rising even though no resource appears fully exhausted. The problem here is that most…

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18. 12. 2024 Csaba Remenar DevOps, ITOA

Introduction to Container Resource Management and What We Can Learn for Monitoring

Recently, I’ve been deeply involved in OpenShift monitoring tasks, including configuring Grafana dashboards and creating Prometheus alerts. During this time, I’ve focused on effectively monitoring container resources such as CPU and memory. Container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift require efficient resource utilization and precise resource management in order to optimize performance and ensure application…

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20. 03. 2024 Attilio Broglio Unified Monitoring

How to Monitor the TOP N CPU-Using Processes

During my last session with a customer, I faced an interesting and challenging issue in the Windows environment. The question was: “How can I monitor the list of the most CPU-demanding processes?” The request immediately looked like one that’s very simple to understand, but hard to implement. We look for something out of the box…

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