The Hitchhiker's Guide to Prometheus
Speaker: Remco Overdijk
Genre & level: Backend, Way of working, Medior
Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/bolcomtech...
Familiar tools like Statsd, Graphite, Nagios, etc. are no longer used in the Cloud, meaning we’ve hitched a new ride: Prometheus, and it’s all about Metrics!
"A Metric, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Prometheus says, is about the most massively useful thing someone doing Monitoring can have. It has great practical value. You can wave your Metric in emergencies as a distress signal, and produce pretty Graphs at the same time."
Don’t Panic, this talk is not about deploying Prometheus, Kubernetes or Vogon Poetry, but all about YOU!
How exactly would that work, using metrics for monitoring purposes? Is it really that different from having separate stacks? Can I export 42 as a Metric? How do I migrate from Statsd/Nagios to this new world? What do I do when metrics seem to be insufficient to monitor something?
Like a Babel Fish, this talk translates your questions into hands-on tips and tricks on working with Prometheus. Not only for the cloud, but all applications/services in general.