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Tom Wilkie

Tom is VP, Technology at Grafana Labs, a member of the Prometheus team, and one of the original authors of the Cortex and Loki projects. In his spare time, he builds 3D printers and makes craft beer.

How a production outage in Grafana Cloud's Hosted Prometheus service was caused by a bad etcd client...

4 min | 7 Apr 2020

Cortex v1.0 released: The highly scalable, fast Prometheus implementation is generally available for...

3 min | 2 Apr 2020

Even More Blazin' Fast PromQL

5 min | 18 Dec 2019

[PromCon Recap] Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity: Cortex and Thanos

6 min | 21 Nov 2019

ICYMI: Grafana Labs at PromCon

3 min | 13 Nov 2019

Why We Offset 200% of Carbon Emissions for All PromCon Attendees

1 min | 7 Nov 2019

How many metrics? A guide to estimating the size of your system

Wondering how much storage you need for your metrics? Here’s a guide to estimating the size of your...

2 min | 24 Sep 2019

Cortex v0.1 has been released. Here’s what’s new with the CNCF Sandbox project.

2 min | 8 Aug 2019

How a Production Outage Was Caused Using Kubernetes Pod Priorities

On July 19, Grafana Cloud’s Hosted Prometheus service experienced a 30-minute outage. Here’s our...

6 min | 24 Jul 2019

Grafana Labs at KubeCon: Awesome Query Performance with Cortex

At KubeCon last week, Weaveworks' Bryan Boreham and I gave a talk about how we've improved Cortex's...

5 min | 30 May 2019

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