And lo there was monitoring!
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And lo there was monitoring!
- 1. ... for dust you are and to dust you will return ... James Turnbull @kartar https://www.kartar.net
- 2. Let me tell you a story...
- 3. In the beginning there was darkness
- 4. Then the world grew
- 5. Then all at once there was a loud bang
- 6. But a wise saint said: "Let there be a (little) light!"
- 7. But Monitoring was a fragile beast
- 8. Limited resolution and scale Reactive Infrastructure-centric Single data source-centric Monitored widgets not outcomes
- 9. Virtualization, Cloud Containers, Serverless New architectures IT as revenue center not cost center
- 10. Complexity and impact writ large
- 11. So we didn't do so well last time...
- 12. Observability
- 13. It's not about the tools. It's never about the tools.
- 14. But it is about who the customer is...
- 15. Observability concerns are business concerns
- 17. Observe systems
- 18. Use more data sources
- 19. Rich data means deep context
- 20. Monitoring is about symptoms Observability is about understanding
Editor's Notes
- - This is a story of where we've been - And what you can learn from the past. - Where we're going
- - Humans as monitoring - single/small numbers of machines, ops teams. - Monitoring was limited: heavily checklist-based
- - move to client/server - more moving pieces - move to IT being mission critical
- Outages – more of them, more time to recover.
- Check-based monitoring. - periodic checks
- Limited granularity and doesn’t scale Built post-the-implementation Focused on host and availability metrics Checks are one source of data – generally ignores: traces, logs, metrics Focused on IT assets not business metrics
- Thankfully things have gotten simpler… Oh wait.
- Complexity plus IT becoming strategic.
- Despite all this - things have not evolved as rapidly in the monitoring world. 80/20 bubble. We need a new start. First, re-evaluate what data youre collecting, what you're watching, what you're alerting on Second, it’s about new requirements not about patching old systems. You need to build a new paradigm.
- New paradigm that we can grow into. A meta narrative. A superset of monitoring. Embraces more than monitoring, doesn’t mean giving monitoring up. Not a perfect definition. Aspirational
- You are not the (only) customer of your monitoring.
- Observe systems. Components are interchangeable and not worth the effort. Observe end-to-end – user experience matters.
- Checks Metrics Logs Traces Also add context – you know a lot about your systems, why not surface that so you don’t have to go fishing. Et al
- Good for debugging purposes. You can’t predict failure in complex systems but you know it’s going to happen arming yourself with evidence and diagnostic information leaves you best prepared. Tools and their data can tell you information. Data with context gives you answers.
- report the overall health of systems Highly granular insights into the behavior of systems along with rich context.