Yeah. I tried not to editorialize the HN post.

Google was a search company. Now it is an advertising company.

How do you “import” existing Prometheus metrics block into Cortex/Mimir using the remote-write, then?

For Thanos, you can (mostly) just copy the blocks from the existing s3 bucket into Mimir's bucket. There's some cleanup prep around external labels, but nothing too difficult, and the process is well-documented. I just finished migrating a year of Thanos metrics into Mimir without issue.

GitLab.com is impacted too as they are also behind Cloudflare.

GitLab team member here. Thanks for sharing.

Incident: https://status.gitlab.com/pages/incident/5b36dc6502d06804c08... with the latest update:

[Monitoring] Services seem to be back to normal, and we continue monitoring. Details in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/7...

> I trust Google SRE to store my data long term far more than I do

I don't trust Google (that much) to keep my account active before my death, as their automated tools can shut down my account anytime and leave me with no access to my data.

Well, that part of Google is less trustworthy, that is true. One reason I keep an orthogonal backup system that isn't Google.

1. How about posting it in a hosted solution like wordpress.com? Is it better in this case than self-hosting your blog?

2. No, it is not (yet, maybe). But I’d like my writings to be accessible as long as possible after my death.

I laughed at how the "MS Windows fundamentals 101" is blank.

Because no operations engineer should use MS Windows? :see_no_evil: