Martin Mao and Rob Skillington are co-founders of Chronosphere; CEO and CTO respectively. They both worked on the monitoring team at Uber, where they created M3: a metrics platform with an open source time-series database built for scale. They join Craig and Adam to talk about monitoring, metrics and M3 on the last episode of 2019.

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Links from the interview

• M3 website
• M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus
• Before: Graphite and its Whisper database
• Prometheus
  • Why pull rather than push?
  • AlertManager
  • PromQL
• RRDtool
• M3 on GitHub: open source from the start
• Chronosphere
• Rob’s 2019 KubeCon’s talks:
  • EU: M3 and Prometheus, Monitoring at Planet Scale for Everyone
  • NA: Deep Linking Metrics and Traces with OpenTelemetry, OpenMetrics and M3
• Twitter:
  • Rob Skillington
  • Martin Mao
  • M3
  • Chronosphere