UX Design and Education for Effective Monitoring Tools

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Argues that UX changes measurably improve monitoring: adds an alert previewer that shows aggregation (average over 10 minutes) and notification windows so a >5-errors rule stops spamming; introduces Mad Libs defaults (average, 30s check) and hides the dangerous “final point” option to prevent misuse; replaces cryptic query syntax with a form-based builder, increasing adoption and raising satisfaction from 3/7 to 4/7 in surveys. Mentions Graphite, OpenTSDB, Datadog, Terraform, Splicer and rollup/caching ideas; accessibility fixes (8% red‑green colorblind men) also reduce confusion.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:46Speaker Deck
3. 1:07Agenda
4. 1:27Team Culture
5. 2:26Documentation
6. 3:23Why should we care
7. 4:01Graphite vs Open TS
8. 4:40Monitor AMA 2017
9. 5:13Why you should invest in this
10. 5:37Prevent misunderstandings
11. 6:43Data Democracy
12. 7:39Quote
13. 8:53Sharing What You Know
14. 9:08Example of an Alert
15. 9:56Aggregate Series by Average
16. 11:07Best Practices
17. 12:42Pitfalls
18. 12:58Final Points
19. 14:16Designing What Your Users Want
20. 14:41Performance
21. 15:08Storage
22. 16:12Cache
23. 16:22Splicer
24. 16:32Lowhanging fruit
25. 18:27Exploration
26. 18:58Dont mess with this
27. 20:42Accessibility
28. 22:10Color Schemes
29. 23:14Navigation Bars
30. 26:02Terraform
31. 26:27Datadog
32. 26:49Recap
33. 27:00Simplicity
34. 27:11No one uses it
35. 27:44My example
36. 28:22Input field
37. 29:17UI form
38. 29:49Power users
39. 30:44You dont have to be building
40. 30:57Education vs intuition
41. 31:57Statistics vs useful data

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