It’s all about open source monitoring this week, as Prometheus Co-Founder Julius Volz (https://twitter.com/juliusvolz),

joins your co-hosts Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) to talk all about

Prometheus (https://prometheus.io/). Where it came from, why it was built and why you should use it.

About Julius Volz

Julius (https://twitter.com/juliusvolz) co-founded the Prometheus monitoring system and lead the project to success at SoundCloud and beyond.

He now focuses on growing the Prometheus community and is the main organizer of PromCon, the first conference around

Prometheus. In a previous life, Julius was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google.

Cool things of the week

* New Singapore GCP region – open now blog (New Singapore GCP region – open now) locations (https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/)

* Training an object detector using Cloud Machine Learning Engine blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/06/training-an-object-detector-using-cloud-machine-learning-engine)

* Preparing a Container Engine Environment for Production solution (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/prep-container-engine-for-prod)

Interview

* Prometheus homepage (https://prometheus.io/) github (https://github.com/prometheus)

* Prometheus Overview youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxcEzu62jk) media (https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/media/)

* Prometheus Query Language docs (https://prometheus.io/docs/querying/basics/)

* Grafana homepage (https://grafana.com/) docs (https://prometheus.io/docs/visualization/grafana/)

* Prometheus Client Libraries docs (https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/)

* Installing Prometheus on Kubernetes helm (https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/stable/prometheus) operator (https://coreos.com/blog/the-prometheus-operator.html)

* Cortex, a Open source, horizontally scalable Prometheus as a service github (https://github.com/weaveworks/cortex)

* Prometheus Federation docs (https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/federation/)

* Prometheus Conference, PromCon 2017 site (https://promcon.io/2017-munich/)

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Question of the week

I didn’t put enough log statements in my application, and now things are broken. Help!?

* Using Debug Logpoints docs (https://cloud.google.com/debugger/docs/logpoints) youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9_kMqWasWk)

Where can you find us next?

Francesc just released a new #justforfunc episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQeAKSJH4vw)

where he builds a Twitter bot that runs for free on GCP.

He will be running a workshop at QCon New York (https://qconnewyork.com/) on Go tooling based on

this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBjoTxosSys), after that he’ll be at GopherCon in Denver!

Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York (https://cloudplatformonline.com/summit-NewYork-2017.html) in July.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/_vQfphHhZRI)