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Kubernetes has emerged as the de-facto standard for orchestrating containerized applications. While Kubernetes abstracts away many complexities, it also introduces new operational and monitoring challenges. Download this ebook to learn how to gain end-to-end visibility into infrastructure nodes, Kubernetes objects, and every microservice deployed.”

Latest Articles on monitoring.love

The Vendor Is Not the Enemy with Cory Watson

I spoke with Cory Watson on Real World DevOps recently. Cory is previously the lead on Observability at both Twitter and Stripe, and now a Technical Director at SignalFx, and we had a fantastic chat about the transition from being a customer to being a vendor, as well as a whole bunch of monitoring stuff.

Observability & Monitoring Community Slack

Come hang out with all your fellow Monitoring Weekly readers. I mean, I’m also there, but I’m sure everyone else is way cooler.

From The Community

Accelerate: State of DevOps 2019 Survey

This survey is the real deal, and it needs your input. Designed and conducted by Nicole Forsgren, an actual researcher and not a marketer with an agenda to push, the results are legit. Your input is incredibly valuable to the survey, as it helps everyone in the world of Ops improve what we’re doing. You can see 2018’s results here, in case you’re curious what comes out of this.

I also had a wonderful time interview Nicole on my podcast about the report.

Practictioner’s Guide to Dashboard Design

I freaking love this series. <3

How to instrument your Go application with the Elastic APM Go agent

I know there’s at least a handful of you looking at your latest APM invoice and feeling queasy. Maybe this will cheer you up.

How Bloomberg Tracks Hundreds of Billions of Data Points Daily with MetricTank and Grafana

“The enterprise premium service handles about 120 billion (that’s billion) pieces of data from financial markets daily, 2 million stories from its news division and affiliates, and a messaging network (think “Instant Bloomberg”) that fields 1 billion messages.” that’s… a lot of data

HAProxy Exposes a Prometheus Metrics Endpoint

I love that the Prometheus endpoint standard is being taken up by so many products. The latest one, of course, being everyone’s favorite “wait, HAProxy can do that?!”

Introducing Kubecost: a better approach to Kubernetes cost monitoring

The best Kubernetes is no Kubernetes, but if that ship has sailed, this tool will probably help.

Elastic Stack 7.0.0 released, Fluentd has Graduated!, Announcing Graylog 3.0 GA

Congrats to these teams on their major milestones. Lots of awesome stuff for us all in these releases.

The Top 5 Open-Source NIDS Solutions

For the security-minded among you, or perhaps the “I was just told we need some security tools and my first stop was wikipedia” group, this is a great list of NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection Systems).

How to collect, customize, and centralize Python logs

I find myself in a bit of a love-hate relationship with Python’s logger. On one hand, it’s awesome and does everything I need it to. On the other, it does way more than I need and that flexibility has led to much late-night cursing.

How We Designed Loki to Work Easily Both as Microservices and as Monoliths

From the article: “Loki is single binary, has no dependencies, and can be run on your laptop without being connected to the Internet,” says Grafana Labs VP Product Tom Wilkie. “So it’s easy to develop on, deploy, and try.” And if you want to run it with microservices at scale, adds Loki Engineer Edward Welch, “Loki lets you go from 1 node to 100 and 1 service to 10, to scale in a pretty straightforward fashion.”

Learning from DevOps: Why complex systems necessitate new ITSM thinking

Some wonderful thoughts on managing complex systems with Cynefin and Swarming.

Key metrics for Amazon EKS monitoring

The folks at Datadog are back with an article on Amazon EKS.

Docker Container Monitoring and Management Challenges

A really in-depth article on containers, problems, and solutions.

This issue is sponsored by:

SignalFx logoBest Practices for Monitoring Microservices on Kubernetes

Kubernetes has emerged as the de-facto standard for orchestrating containerized applications. While Kubernetes abstracts away many complexities, it also introduces new operational and monitoring challenges. Download this ebook to learn how to gain end-to-end visibility into infrastructure nodes, Kubernetes objects, and every microservice deployed.”

Events

InfluxDays London 2019 - June 13-14, 2019 - London, UK

See you next week!

– Mike (@mike_julian) Monitoring Weekly Editor