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
The Art of Monitoring released! Announcing the release of my book on building modern monitoring with Riemann, Graphite, collectd, Logstash, and friends
Monitoring Survey 2015 - Data Publishing the anonymised CSV source data from the 2015 monitoring survey for anyone who wants to do their own analysis
Monitoring Survey 2015 - Effectiveness When checks get added, how many alerts go unanswered, and how widely configuration management is used in 2015 monitoring environments
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
Monitoring Survey 2015 - Environments Server, cloud, network, application, and business logic coverage across respondents in the 2015 monitoring survey results
Monitoring Survey 2015 - Tools Nagios still leads in 2015 with AWS CloudWatch, New Relic, and a surge of home grown tooling close behind
Monitoring Survey 2015 - Demographics Comparing 2015 job roles, organisation sizes, and monitoring ownership against last year's results across 884 complete responses
Monitoring Survey 2015 - Background Introducing the 15 questions and methodology behind the 2015 edition of the monitoring survey with 1,116 responses
The Art of Monitoring sample chapter Announcing a free sample chapter from my new monitoring book, covering the installation and use of Riemann
Monitoring Survey 2015 Launching the second annual monitoring survey at Monitorama to track how the monitoring landscape has shifted over the past year
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
Connecting Riemann and Zookeeper Looking up HAProxy node counts in Zookeeper from a Riemann stream so monitoring thresholds update without waiting for configuration convergence
Just Enough Clojure for Riemann A crash course in Clojure syntax, collections, functions, and namespaces that gets you ready to write Riemann configuration files
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
The Art of Monitoring Announcing a hands on book on building modern, scalable monitoring with Riemann, Graphite, Sensu, Flapjack, and Logstash
Riemann Sample Configurations Asking the community to contribute real Riemann configurations to a shared GitHub repository to help newcomers learn the Clojure based config
Using Riemann for Metrics Installing Graphite, configuring Carbon retention schemas, and forwarding Riemann events to generate metric graphs from Nginx status data
A Monitoring Maturity Model A simple three stage model, manual, reactive, and proactive, for describing how organisations evolve their monitoring practices
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
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
Monitoring Survey - Data Releasing the anonymised CSV source data from the 2014 monitoring survey along with notes on the R and ggplot2 analysis
Monitoring Survey - Effectiveness Looking at unanswered alerts, undetected outages, and configuration management adoption across the 2014 survey responses
Monitoring Survey - Environments Examining what infrastructure layers respondents monitor and when checks are added during the 2014 survey results
Monitoring Survey - Metrics Looking at who collects metrics and what they collect them for in the 2014 monitoring survey responses
Monitoring Survey - Tools Nagios leads the 2014 primary tool results with Icinga, Sensu, Zabbix, and New Relic also figuring strongly
Monitoring Survey - Background Outlining the 12 questions, methodology, and 1,016 respondents that drove the 2014 monitoring maturity survey
Monitoring Survey - Demographics Breaking down job roles, organisation sizes, and who owns monitoring across the 866 complete responses to the 2014 survey
Monitoring Survey Asking readers to fill in a short anonymous survey on IT monitoring to gather data for a conference talk