Thomas Schlosser, Author at SUSE Communities

January 13, 2026 1:12 pm

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Grafana Alloy – Part 2 – Replacing Prometheus Node Exporter

As discussed in the First Article of this series, Grafana Alloy was introduced to the official repositories starting with SLES 15 SP7. With the release of SLES 16, this transition is now complete. Alloy has fully replaced all legacy collectors. This article will describe the key considerations for migrating from Prometheus Node Exporter to Alloy […]

By: Thomas Schlosser

December 9, 2025 1:13 pm

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Grafana Alloy – Part 1: Replacing Promtail

For a long time, Promtail was the go-to tool for collecting and sending logs to Grafana Loki. As Promtail has officially entered its Long-Term Support (LTS) phase, the future of log collection now lies with Grafana Alloy, a single, unified agent built for logs, metrics, and traces. Starting with SLES 15 SP7, Grafana Alloy is […]

By: Thomas Schlosser

November 6, 2024 8:37 am

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Configure SAP services to log outsite of journald

Why should we do this - The story behind Journald is an integral part of systemd. It is the centralized location for all messages logged by different components in a modern linux system. On a SUSE system all the messages are forwarded in addition to rsysylog. This means all logs are stored in systemd-journal and […]

By: Thomas Schlosser

August 13, 2024 1:21 pm

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Gain experience in monitoring your SAP environment

Our Best Practice Paper Infrastructure monitoring for SAP Systems does a really good job to get detailed information about how to install and customize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications to monitor metrics. It provide a lot of insights that can help increase uptime of critical SAP applications. For people […]

By: Thomas Schlosser

September 8, 2021 9:26 am

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Discover your cluster logfiles – A journey into the past.

Log files are very useful when it comes to situations where the root cause of an event has to be investigated. But analyzing logs does not only mean looking for errors in the system. There are also a lot of other informations in most of the log files. The pacemaker log file is a perfect […]

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By: Thomas Schlosser

June 25, 2021 9:15 am

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XFS “nobarrier” option is now more than deprecated

XFS nobarrier mount option became deprecate Starting with SLES 12 SP4 the xfs mount option "nobarrier" becomes deprecated. But before xfs completely removed these option, there was an initial period of several years where the option was being still recognized but ignored. This means that it was still possible to set the option but […]

Tags: filesystem, nobarrier, SLES, XFS

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