It’s all about open source monitoring this week, as Prometheus Co-Founder Julius Volz, joins your co-hosts Francesc and Mark to talk all about Prometheus. Where it came from, why it was built and why you should use it.

About Julius Volz

Julius 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 locations
• Training an object detector using Cloud Machine Learning Engine blog
• Preparing a Container Engine Environment for Production solution

Interview

• Prometheus homepage github
• Prometheus Overview youtube media
• Prometheus Query Language docs
• Grafana homepage docs
• Prometheus Client Libraries docs
• Installing Prometheus on Kubernetes helm operator
• Cortex, a Open source, horizontally scalable Prometheus as a service github
• Prometheus Federation docs
• Prometheus Conference, PromCon 2017 site

Question of the week

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

• Using Debug Logpoints docs youtube

Where can you find us next?

Francesc just released a new #justforfunc episode where he builds a Twitter bot that runs for free on GCP.

He will be running a workshop at QCon New York on Go tooling based on this video, after that he’ll be at GopherCon in Denver!

Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York in July.