Issue 075
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It is actually surprisingly difficult to create product testing criteria from scratch. Anyone who has evaluated products in the past can tell stories about new criteria popping up last minute, simply because no one thought about it before they found a problem in one product.
That’s a dumb way to evaluate products. Do better with Scalyr’s guide to evaluating a log management platform.
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Latest Articles on monitoring.love
Observerless: The hottest new thing in monitoring you’re already doing
The (in)famous Corey Quinn of Last Week in AWS recently graced the website of Monitoring Weekly and wrote this gem on a new/old concept: Observerless.
Articles From The Community
This isn’t strictly monitoring-related, but given everyone’s job on this newsletter, I know you’ll be interested in it. For those not familiar with it, the annual State of DevOps Report is a tremendous work headed up by Dr. Nicole Forsgren every year using legit, rigorous research and statistical analysis methods. The results of this one are pretty neat to read.
Getting Physical With PRTG - Part One
For you PRTG folks wondering what to do with all those Arduinos laying around, well, you’re in luck.
I’m still digesting this article because it’s just that good, but the gist: calculating a latency SLO is harder than it first seems, and you’re probably doing it wrong (I know I am).
How to collect, customize, and manage Rails application logs
I always get a kick out of the Rails library for improving logging: lograge. That about sums up my feelings with respect to Rails logging.
node_exporter/smartmon.sh at master · prometheus/node_exporter
This is great: a Prometheus exporter for smartmon.
Incident detection and continuous monitoring in AWS
Well, seems I lost the game of “is that actually an AWS service or is Corey screwing with me again?” This article covers AWS GuardDuty, an incident detection service that leverages VPC flow logs, CloudTrail, and DNS.
Distributed Tracing Infrastructure with Jaeger on Kubernetes
Do you perhaps need a shot of Jaeger(meister) to help soothe the pain otherwise known as “understanding my microservice architecture”? This article on tracing might help solve the monitoring problem, but sorry, you’re on your own with the rest of it.
Events
Yes, I’ll definitely be touching on the horror of timing belts in interference engines with deferred maintenance. Also, monitoring.
Observability Practitioners Summit 2018 - December 10th, 2018 - KubeCon Seattle, WA USA
Going to KubeCon in Seattle? You should totally go to this event that runs in conjunction.
See you next week!
– Mike (@mike_julian) Monitoring Weekly Editor