I started my first full-time job almost three months ago, and I wanted to share some of my biggest wins from the first 30 days.

When I joined, there was no server monitoring, so the team had no visibility into real-time infrastructure usage. By my second week, I had set up collectd on each server, along with a central InfluxDB and Grafana monitoring system. We’ve tweaked it a bit since then, but now we’ve got a TV in the office displaying real-time usage for everyone to see.

Thanks to this setup, we’ve been able to catch and fix issues before they turn into bigger problems.

The screenshot above is from my third week in Grafana. Around 11 AM that day, we pushed an update with a bunch of performance improvements I had made. At first, we thought something had broken because the performance gains were way bigger than expected. Safe to say, I was thrilled to see my work making such a huge impact.

I’ve kept that momentum going and don’t plan on slowing down anytime soon.