Creating a Scalable Monitoring System That Everyone Will Love

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Monitoring Mistakes
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Monitoring Mistakes Overhauling the System The Payoff
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Incredibly Inconsistent
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Inconsistent Alerts
Required no actionReported data
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Inconsistent Alerts
Required no actionReported data
Immediate action required
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Manual Monitoring
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Manual Monitoring
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make on-call devs miserable
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Coverage doesn’t matter if you have
no idea what is going on!
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Consolidate Monitoring To a Single Place
Monitoring Must Haves
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Make ALL Alerts Actionable
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Action

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Action Required No action Needed
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#ops_alerts
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#ops_alerts
#ops_reporting
#dev_alerts
#dev_reporting
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Make Sure Alerts Are Mutable
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Miss new alerts

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Track Alert History
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Tracking Alert History
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5 Remove ALL Manual Monitoring

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Manual Monitoring
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Automatic Alerts

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On boarding is a breeze
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3 On-boarding steps:
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Show them the monitoring setup1
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If an alert goes off you have to address it
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How to mute a triggered alert
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On boarding is a breeze
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Happier on-call developers
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All alerts must be actionable
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No more noise
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Alerts must be mutable
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Alerts must be mutable
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Diagnosing alerts is faster and easier
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High Priority Job Queue Backed Up

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Today?

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Today?
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Today?
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Today?
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Developers began helping to
improve our monitoring system
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All alerts must be actionable
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30-40 Alerts
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>90 Alerts
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Basic Alerts

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More Granular Alerts
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Developers
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Monitoring Must Have Benefits
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On-call developers are a lot happier
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Developers helping to improve your
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Track Alert History
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