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Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Le Chat or Cursor to Bleemeo in read-only mode and ask about alerts, metrics, PromQL queries and logs in plain language.
Read more: Ask Claude or Le Chat what is happening on your servers: the Bleemeo MCP server
Write a PromQL query, see the answer, share the link. And when an exploration is worth keeping, start the rule from a library of 85 templates.
Read more: When you have a question, not a dashboard to build: the Metrics explorer and recording rule templates
Connect an Azure subscription with a single read-only role: VMs, SQL, Cosmos DB, load balancers, storage, Functions and cost, discovered and charted.
Read more: Azure in Bleemeo: your subscription next to your servers, with one read-only role
Bleemeo and ilert are now partners. Bleemeo detects the problem, ilert pages the on-call responder, and both companies answer to European law.
Read more: Bleemeo and ilert: two European companies, one alerting chain
Ingestion is billed by volume, so every log line is a spending decision. How to count errors at the agent without shipping the lines at all.
Read more: Log ingestion: you are probably paying to store logs you will never read
A summer refresher on the monitoring fundamentals: the four golden signals, the three pillars of observability, percentiles, SLOs and error budgets.
Read more: Monitoring Fundamentals in Six Lessons: From Golden Signals to Error Budgets
A field guide to the open monitoring protocols — Prometheus, OpenMetrics, OpenTelemetry, StatsD, Graphite and NRPE — what each does and when to use it.
Read more: Monitoring Protocols Compared — Which Standard for What
Monitor a single server with Glouton: one open-source binary that exposes Prometheus /metrics, auto-discovers services, and ships a built-in dashboard.
Read more: Lightweight Server Monitoring — One Binary, No Stack
Discover the benefits of using a managed Prometheus service instead of self-hosting, and how it can save time and reduce complexity.
Read more: Prometheus in the Cloud: Why Managed Solutions Win