Why We Migrated Our Database Monitoring Stack to Prometheus and Grafana
summary
Explains why the team replaced their traditional database monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana to avoid blind spots and siloed telemetry. Describes problems with legacy DB monitoring in distributed CI/CD environments and outlines how they migrated the database monitoring stack to Prometheus for metrics collection and Grafana for visualization and correlation with other system telemetry.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 10:22Old monitoring problems
- 21:42New setup goals
- 27:46Prometheus Grafana architecture
- 33:53Black Box dashboards
- 38:07White Box monitoring data
- 41:58Benefits and improvements
- 44:24Conclusion demo
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