Observability on Margrop Blog https://blog.margrop.net/en/tag/observability/ Recent content in Observability on Margrop Blog Hugo en-US Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0800 Stop Letting AI Guess: Connect MySQL, Prometheus, Loki and Grafana to an Agent, Step by Step https://blog.margrop.net/en/post/mysql-prometheus-loki-grafana-ai-agent-hands-on/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0800 https://blog.margrop.net/en/post/mysql-prometheus-loki-grafana-ai-agent-hands-on/ <p><img src="https://blog.margrop.net/post-images/mysql-prometheus-loki-grafana-ai-agent/00-cover-ai-generated.png" alt="An original cover showing MySQL, Prometheus, Loki and Grafana feeding an AI Agent"></p> <p>Many teams already run MySQL, Prometheus, Loki and Grafana. Yet when an alert fires, the on-call engineer still jumps between four windows: inspect a dashboard, write a PromQL query, search logs for a trace ID, and finally connect to the database to confirm the business record.</p> <p>It is like a hospital that owns a thermometer, medical records, laboratory reports and a monitoring wall, while the doctor still has to visit four rooms and copy every number by hand. The useful role of an AI Agent is not to guess the illness. It is to use tightly restricted tools, collect evidence from those systems and clearly separate symptoms, confirmed facts, likely causes and recommended actions.</p> Stop Reading Logs by Hand: A Practical ELK-to-AI-Agent Guide from Deployment to Assisted Troubleshooting https://blog.margrop.net/en/post/elk-ai-agent-hands-on/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0800 https://blog.margrop.net/en/post/elk-ai-agent-hands-on/ <p><img src="https://blog.margrop.net/post-images/elk-ai-agent-hands-on/00-cover-ai-generated.png" alt="ELK connected to an AI Agent"></p> <p>The traditional incident-response ritual is familiar: open Kibana, choose a time range, write a query, scan pages of logs, copy a few stack traces, and manually assemble a theory. Once several services are involved, the job feels like finding one screw in a warehouse with no clerk.</p> <p>A better design keeps ELK responsible for dependable ingestion, normalization, search, and visualization, then adds an MCP bridge that lets an AI Agent retrieve evidence through tools. Instead of pasting a giant log file into a chat window, you can ask:</p>