What distributed tracing is, why microservices need it, and a walk through traces, spans, OpenCensus, OpenTracing, Zipkin, and Jaeger
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Intro to Distributed Tracing -
Prometheus Walking through installing and configuring Prometheus to scrape time series data, query metrics, and trigger alerts on a local Docker daemon
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The Art of Monitoring released! Announcing the release of my book on building modern monitoring with Riemann, Graphite, collectd, Logstash, and friends
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Monitoring Survey 2015 - Data Publishing the anonymised CSV source data from the 2015 monitoring survey for anyone who wants to do their own analysis
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Monitoring Survey 2015 - Effectiveness When checks get added, how many alerts go unanswered, and how widely configuration management is used in 2015 monitoring environments
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Monitoring Survey 2015 - Metrics Which tools respondents use to collect, store, and visualise metrics, and what they do with the data in the 2015 survey
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Monitoring Survey 2015 - Environments Server, cloud, network, application, and business logic coverage across respondents in the 2015 monitoring survey results
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Monitoring Survey 2015 - Tools Nagios still leads in 2015 with AWS CloudWatch, New Relic, and a surge of home grown tooling close behind
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Monitoring Survey 2015 - Demographics Comparing 2015 job roles, organisation sizes, and monitoring ownership against last year's results across 884 complete responses
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Monitoring Survey 2015 - Background Introducing the 15 questions and methodology behind the 2015 edition of the monitoring survey with 1,116 responses
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The Art of Monitoring sample chapter Announcing a free sample chapter from my new monitoring book, covering the installation and use of Riemann
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Monitoring Survey 2015 Launching the second annual monitoring survey at Monitorama to track how the monitoring landscape has shifted over the past year
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Looking up events in the Riemann index Using riemann.index/search inside a custom mailer body to pull related events from the Riemann index and attach context to email alerts
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Connecting Riemann and Zookeeper Looking up HAProxy node counts in Zookeeper from a Riemann stream so monitoring thresholds update without waiting for configuration convergence
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Just Enough Clojure for Riemann A crash course in Clojure syntax, collections, functions, and namespaces that gets you ready to write Riemann configuration files
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Custom emails with Riemann Using the Riemann mailer plug-in's :subject and :body options to build custom email alerts driven by event fields like host
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The Art of Monitoring Announcing a hands on book on building modern, scalable monitoring with Riemann, Graphite, Sensu, Flapjack, and Logstash
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Riemann Sample Configurations Asking the community to contribute real Riemann configurations to a shared GitHub repository to help newcomers learn the Clojure based config
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Using Riemann for Metrics Installing Graphite, configuring Carbon retention schemas, and forwarding Riemann events to generate metric graphs from Nginx status data
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A Monitoring Maturity Model A simple three stage model, manual, reactive, and proactive, for describing how organisations evolve their monitoring practices
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Using Riemann for Fault Detection Using Riemann streams and the index to detect down services via TTL expiry, then routing alerts to email and PagerDuty
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An Introduction to Riemann Installing Riemann and walking through its event-centric push model for aggregating, processing, and alerting on events from hosts and applications
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Monitoring Survey - Data Releasing the anonymised CSV source data from the 2014 monitoring survey along with notes on the R and ggplot2 analysis
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Monitoring Survey - Effectiveness Looking at unanswered alerts, undetected outages, and configuration management adoption across the 2014 survey responses
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Monitoring Survey - Environments Examining what infrastructure layers respondents monitor and when checks are added during the 2014 survey results
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Monitoring Survey - Metrics Looking at who collects metrics and what they collect them for in the 2014 monitoring survey responses
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Monitoring Survey - Tools Nagios leads the 2014 primary tool results with Icinga, Sensu, Zabbix, and New Relic also figuring strongly
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Monitoring Survey - Background Outlining the 12 questions, methodology, and 1,016 respondents that drove the 2014 monitoring maturity survey
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Monitoring Survey - Demographics Breaking down job roles, organisation sizes, and who owns monitoring across the 866 complete responses to the 2014 survey
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Monitoring Survey Asking readers to fill in a short anonymous survey on IT monitoring to gather data for a conference talk