Tom Wilkie

Join @tomwilkie.bsky.social of @grafana.bsky.social over beer and pizza at our Apprentice meetup on Wednesday, 12th February, at 18.00 at Red Badger Old Street https://buff.ly/4g2k0w1 Sign up by 6PM today to secure your spot! #openukmeetup #newbies #opensource

YouTube video by waffleByte: Tech News and Deep Dives Tom Wilkie: coding with AI, observability, and maintaining a strong company culture

I did an interview on Grafana labs, 3D printing and my career - check it out youtu.be/tozAiEe6zVk?...

Join @tomwilkie.bsky.social of @grafana.bsky.social over beer and pizza at our Apprentice meetup on Wednesday 12th February at 18.00
at Red Badge Old Street https://buff.ly/4g2k0w1 #openukmeetup #newbies #opensource

Grafana's Big Tent | Kubernetes, Kepler, and Carbon Footprints: The Latest Tools and Strategies to Optimize Observability Hosted by Tom Wilkie, this week's episode features Thomas Dullien, former Co-Founder and CEO of Optimyze; Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs' distinguished engineer; and Senior Software Engineer at Grafan...

I had a lot of fun talking about optimising and sustainability, with @halvarflake.bsky.social and Niki and @tomwilkie.bsky.social.

bigtent.fm/s2/8

Easily control observability collectors at scale with Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud | Grafana Labs Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud is designed for teams looking to manage hundreds or thousands of collectors efficiently, so they can remotely configure, activate, or deactivate telemetry pipelines o...

My team @grafana.bsky.social has recently released Fleet Management in public preview 🎉

Here's a thread to showcase how it can be a game changer for your observability practice, enabling fleet visibility and configuration management like never before🧵

Announcing Prometheus 3.0 | Prometheus An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.

Today on #KubeConNA we released @prometheus.io 3.0 ❤️

It was a long and amazing journey; thanks to all 68 contributors since 2.55 and near 1000 since 2.0! 💪

New UI, query explore, UTF-8, @opentelemetry.io compatibility, Remote Write 2.0, better perf and more!

Details: prometheus.io/blog/2024/11...

So I rigger up a simple test on a breadbox and fiddled with it... and tried turning the gain down from 128 to 64 (?). And it seems to work!

Now to build another wind tunnel and see if I can measure downforce going up with speed...

I tried putting all the electronics on a "proper" PCB, made proper connectors for everything (to reduce the noise in the of wires?); I made the hole for the "spike" bigger to prevent it rubbing... still no good.

I first put this down to using a 5kg load scale to try and measure ~10mg of downforce; never going to be able to see that in the noise. So for the next iteration, I used a 100g weight scale (the model weighs ~30g) - but still too much noise!

Some of you may already know, I'm designing and building a little desktop wind tunnel. Latest iteration has a weight scale in it, to try and measure downforce on the model. Problem is, the weight scale has been super noisy - and I've not really been able to get a signal from it (see attached)

On my PTO week I'm continuing my 3D printing theme, this time with a DIY trolley and filament dry box for my Prusa XL: www.printables.com/model/109007...

I think the biggest upgrade is the WiFi - I always had reliability issues with Prusa Connect and my MK4, but the new WiFi module in the MK4S (an esp32 I think) is so much more reliable....

Me too! Although I’ve given up and listed them all on eBay: www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?s...

I’ve got a collection of old macs that I want to turn into a cluster at some point…

Finally got round to doing the Prusa MK4S upgrade - and so far loving the small speed bump and massive cooling upgrade. PETG and overhangs print much better. Well worth it.

How to use OpenTelemetry and Grafana Alloy to convert delta to cumulative at scale | Grafana Labs With OpenTelemetry and Grafana Alloy, it's now easier than ever to send delta samples to cumulative backends such as Prometheus or Grafana Cloud.

Wrote about the @opentelemetry.io work i've been doing over the last year: grafana.com/blog/2024/11...

2025 - Monitoring & Observability devroom CFP CfP for “Monitoring & Observability” devroom at FOSDEM 2025 FOSDEM 2025 will take place during the weekend of 2025-02-01 & 2025-02-02. More details about the event can be found at http://fosdem.org/...

Did I mention here that the #FOSDEM #Monitoring & #Observability devroom CfP is open?

It'll be open for another week, so if you want to submit, ~now is a good time: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

All devroom CfPs: fosdem.org/2025/news/20...

Metrics, logs, traces, and mayhem: introducing an observability adventure game powered by Grafana Alloy and OTel | Grafana Labs Quest World is a new interactive game — created using OTel, Grafana Alloy, and the Grafana LGTM Stack — designed to help you learn the basics of observability (and defeat some evil wizards along the w...

Looking for fun with with #Observability and #OpenTelemetry?
Check out the adventure game introduced by @grafana.bsky.social

🤫 psst, there is an easter egg hidden ... 🔍

grafana.com/blog/2024/11...

Espresso Drinkware : minimalist cups engineered for coffee pleasure. In ceramic porcelain and double-walled glass. Minimalist double-walled espresso glasses. Perfect for espresso drinks, such as a double espresso or a macchiato. Ultra strong borosilicate (Pyrex) glass. Intentionally logo free.

decentespresso.com/glass

The new decent espresso cups make latte art a bit easier!

Working now on a starter pack for Grafanistas at Grafana Labs! This will grow over time!

go.bsky.app/VEcwQQi

#grafana #tempo #loki #mimir #k6