When you think about monitoring infrastructure, what comes to mind?
Maybe dashboards in Grafana, real-time alerts from Prometheus, centralized logs, and seamless cloud connectivity across AWS or GCP...
Well, none of that works here.
🌍 Where I Come From
I’m Maria, a self-taught observability engineer from 🇦🇴 Angola — a beautiful country with brilliant people and… unstable infrastructure.
Here, it’s normal to:
- Lose internet multiple times a day
- Have speeds under 1 Mbps
- See power cuts without warning
- Rely on SMS instead of Slack
But guess what? We still have systems to monitor. Critical alerts still matter. And that’s exactly why I started building my own solution.
⚡ The Problem
Traditional observability tools are powerful — but they assume:
- High uptime
- Fast internet
- Access to the cloud
None of those assumptions hold true in large parts of Africa, South America, and Asia. And most engineers in Silicon Valley don’t even realize it.
I needed something different. Something local-first, resilient, and cloud-optional.
🔧 Meet Kuze Alert Monitoring for the Real World
Kuze Alert is my open-source project designed to monitor systems in the harshest, most unreliable environments.
It’s not just another tool. It’s a survival kit for devs like me who work under conditions where “just push to the cloud” doesn’t work.
🧠 Key Features:
- ✅ Offline-first alert generation
- ✅ Works on cheap hardware
- ✅ Sends alerts via SMS or local radio
- ✅ Compresses and syncs data when internet returns
- ✅ Integrates with Prometheus locally
I’m currently building it in Go, using Prometheus and edge storage (SQLite/in-memory).
Soon, it will support push/pull sync and even visual dashboards — without internet.
📡 Real-World Scenario
Imagine a small ISP in Luanda that monitors routers in 3 provinces. The internet drops at night — every night.
With Kuze Alert:
- Metrics are collected locally
- Alerts are fired even offline
- Critical events are cached and sent when possible
That’s observability that respects your reality.
💡 Why This Matters (and Not Just to Me)
- Over 3.5 billion people live with unstable internet
- Cloud-first tools leave these people behind
- Most “global” tools break outside high-income regions
I’m building something different. Something grounded. Something I wish someone had built for me.
👩🏽💻 Who I Am (and Why I’m Writing This)
I’m 18. I’m self-taught. I’ve been building systems since I was more younger.
I created this article because I recently discovered the Dev.to community — and I’m absolutely LOVING the energy here.
The people, the projects, the passion — it’s inspiring.
I’m learning more every day, and I finally feel like I’ve found my tech family.
🔗 Follow My Journey
I'm sharing everything I learn while building Kuze Alert, contributing to open source, and growing from Angola to the world.
- 🌐 GitHub: github.com/mariajtik
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/maria-baptista-95b582280
If you’re working with observability, edge computing, or cloud-native systems, let’s connect (some other IT area, would be a pleasure too).
If you’ve ever built tech in low-resource environments, I want to hear your story.
And if this article resonated with you — react, share, or comment.
It helps me grow, and helps this message reach the people who need it most.
✊🏽 Let’s Build a Truly Global Stack
- One that works offline.
- One that’s resilient.
- One that doesn’t leave half the world behind.
Join me. ⭐ Star my GitHub. 💬 Leave your thoughts. 📣 Share this post.
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