observabilityNotes

Reading and Monitoring Related Talks, Blog Posts, and Videos

Why?

While preparing for my talk at Velocity Conference, I aggregated and went through a ton of materials related to monitoring, kubernetes, and prometheus. After speaking with several conference and talk attendees, I realized that others might benefit from my tendency to over-prepare and read a ton of material!

The talk itself: TBA

The slides: Observability in a Dynamically Scheduled World

Talks

1. Life of a Label: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-SvvZ7AwI
2. HA Alertmanager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvqaYbiTOMg
3. Hadoop, Fluentd Cluster Monitoring: https://www.slideshare.net/wyukawa/prometheus-casual-talk1-63042281
4. Kubernetes & Prometheus: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship*: https://www.oreilly.com/learning/kubernetes-and-prometheus-the-beginning-of-a-beautiful-friendship
5. Matthew Campbell & Scaling to a Million Machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=likpVWB5Lvo
6. Ian Hansen and Vulcan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6N5-1Jyifk
7. Configuration Management and Prometheus w/ Carlos Amedee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieo3lGBHcy8
8. How Human’s See Data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSgEeI2Xpdc

Articles

1. Instrumentation 101*: https://honeycomb.io/blog/categories/instrumentation/
2. Logs and Metrics*: https://medium.com/@cindysridharan/logs-and-metrics-6d34d3026e38
3. How to Query Prometheus on Ubuntu*: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-query-prometheus-on-ubuntu-14-04-part-1
4. Monitoring With Prometheus, Grafana, and Docker: http://opencapacity.co/news/2016/5/12/dev-talk-monitoring-with-prometheus-grafana-docker-part-1
5. Prometheus and Kubernetes - A Perfect Match Series: https://www.weave.works/blog/prometheus-kubernetes-perfect-match/
6. On Graphite, Whisper, and InfluxDB: http://dieter.plaetinck.be/post/on-graphite-whisper-and-influxdb/
7. Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Docker: http://opencapacity.co/news/2016/5/12/dev-talk-monitoring-with-prometheus-grafana-docker-part-1
8. Prometheus, Monitoring at Soundcloud: https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/prometheus-monitoring-at-soundcloud
9. Prometheus and Kubernetes, Monitoring Your Applications https://www.weave.works/blog/prometheus-and-kubernetes-monitoring-your-applications/
10. Monitoring Microservices with Prometheus: http://container-solutions.com/microservice-monitoring-with-prometheus/
11. Prometheus and the Debate Over Push vs. Pull Monitoring: https://thenewstack.io/exploring-prometheus-use-cases-brian-brazil/
12. Prometheus, Lighting the Way: https://movio.co/en/blog/prometheus-lighting-the-way/
13. Prometheus, Comparison to Alternatives: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/
14. Robust Perception Prometheus-Related Blog*: https://www.robustperception.io/blog/
15. Contributing to Prometheus, An Open-Source Tutorial: https://thenewstack.io/contributing-prometheus-history-alertmanager/
16. Prometheus: Practical Anomaly Detection: https://prometheus.io/blog/2015/06/18/practical-anomaly-detection/

*Items with an asterisk are some of my favorites.