Sick of Rings: The Great Battle of Monitoring Systems, Part I
summary
A practical retrospective comparing many metrics collection and storage systems used for high-load services, including both distributed and simpler approaches. It describes problems encountered in real deployments—data not rendering on graphs under complex conditions—and explores why common goals still lead to very different operational results.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:45Monitoring systems compared
- 16:49Graphite and Whisper issues
- 21:21Prometheus wins
- 29:59Q&A
related talks
39mThe Story of One Monitoring
16mMonitoring Microservices The Right Way
35mMonitoring Microservices
42mDistributed Monitoring: How to understand the Chaos
39mThe Ticking Timebomb of Observability Expectations
59mMonitoring A-Z
26mImproving How We Observe Our Observability Data: Techniques for SREs
22mService Monitoring Manual—2018 Edition