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Your analytics tool is counting bots as people
Bot filtering in analytics products is a user-agent blocklist, so it only catches bots that admit what they are. Here are three ways to identify the ones that don't, why your analytics vendor structurally can't do the best of them, and the Cloudflare rule that stops them at the edge.
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Replacing SigNoz with VictoriaMetrics on a 4 GiB budget
Our observability stack had a bigger memory budget than every application it was watching, and was still silently dropping data. Here's what we replaced it with, the exact collector wiring, and what it cost us.
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