Arrested DevOps

The Art of Monitoring With James Turnbull


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Don’t forget to check out the book itself! The Art of Monitoring.

Back in the day, James also wrote a book called Pro Nagios 2.0.

Three stages of monitoring maturity:

  • Manual, user-initiated, or no monitoring (aka Bridget’s example of “we know things are broken because the customer calls us to complain”)
  • Reactive
  • Proactive
  • “You will eventually get to CPU, memory, and disk, but a lot later after you start with the things you should really care about” - James

    “Too much monitoring is binary - this thing either works or it doesn’t” - James

    Also mentioned:

    • Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
    • RFC 1149 IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers - IETF
    • Community & Event Stuff

      Where we’ll be for the upcoming fortnight

      • Matt is getting married at the Jim Beam distillery on Saturday
      • Bridget will miss the bourbon wedding as she’s heading to Joe’s family reunion followed by GOTO Copenhagen.
      • If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf

        Upcoming conferences

        For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off.

        Also now works on O’Reilly Security conference.

        For more DevOps awesomeness, check out the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code ARRESTEDDEVOPS to get 10% off your ticket!

        Open CFPs
        • A lot of devopsdays CFPs closing soon - see devopsdays.org/speaking
        • OSCON’s CFP closes Oct 25
        • Check Outs
          James
          • Skyliner.io
          • Jason Dixon
          • Vote, but not for Trump
          • Bridget
            • Cloud Foundry Summit is going on in Frankfurt right now
            • honeycomb - explorable operations metrics from Charity Majors
            • MicroBadger - for docker image inspection Liz Rice & Anne Curry at Microscaling Systems
            • Trevor
              • Windows Server 2016 is GA!
              • Matt
                • InSpec has shipped 1.0! You can check it out at http://inspec.io/ InSpec is compliance as code – a human-readable language for automating the continuous testing and compliance auditing of your entire infrastructure. You can also use it to verify if your servers and applications are configured correctly.
                • Self-promotion: working on a shareable theme using hugo for podcasts. Check it out at github.com/mattstratton/castanet
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