A Fresh Look at Histograms in Monitoring
summary
Talk explains why histograms are underused in monitoring and how VictoriaMetrics implemented them more usefully. It covers HDR histograms (with specific modifications), best practices and hacks for making histograms work in other TSDBs, when and why to use histograms, and Grafana settings that are critical for correct histogram visualization.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 2:13How a squire Alex become a knight
- 18:46Heatmap
- 20:41Histogram disadvantages
- 26:22HDR libraries
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