The Story of One Monitoring
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A retrospective on building and maintaining a production monitoring system, covering the technologies used, operational problems encountered, and the practical solutions applied. It reviews tooling choices, incident detection and alerting techniques, and lessons learned from running monitoring at scale.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:02What monitoring is
- 2:50Monitoring costs
- 6:05Team needs for monitoring
- 7:11Monitoring functions
- 8:14Alert types
- 10:07Events vs metrics storage
- 13:39Metrics collection
- 18:45Metric storage comparison
- 27:11Grafana visualization
- 30:44Prometheus pros and cons
- 33:11Scaling balancing issues
- 34:20Profiling tools approaches
- 35:26Math in Grafana
- 38:13Alerting status panels
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