Issue 125
Hope you’re all doing well and staying cool in the face of some unusual weather. Sit back and enjoy another collection of stories from the past week!
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Observability & Monitoring Community Slack
Come hang out with all your fellow Monitoring Weekly readers. This past week there were some fun threads around tracing and tools, with a long list of excellent reading recommendations. Join our Slack so you don’t miss out! 😃
From The Community
Observing containers with the three pillars of observability
A wide-angle look at observability considerations for containers with an emphasis on meaningful signals.
Some of these dashboards are truly gorgeous. I’m not sure how effective they are for daily use, but they’re solid inspiration for future projects.
What we learned from an iOS app OOMs incident
I’ll never get tired reading how other engineers think about debugging and interpreting signals. A great diagnostic story.
How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight
“The Flow Exporter is a sidecar that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time on instances that power the Netflix microservices architecture.”
Genuinely curious to see what this looks like at scale. Drool.
Configuring fluentd for logging in Kubernetes in under 15 minutes
How and why you might want to use fluentd for Kubernetes logging.
My Top 5 Grafana sessions from GrafanaCONline 2021
Still sitting here still tapping my foot waiting for GrafanaCONline 2021 videos to be released. In the meantime, here’s a quick recap of some highlights from the event.
Leveraging OpenTelemetry For Custom Context Propagation
Is there anything that OpenTelemetry can’t do? All kidding aside, custom context propagation sounds like one of those things that solve problems that I’m really glad I don’t have to deal with.
I’ve never heard of metrics certification before, this sounds wild. Feels a little domain-specific (i.e. social media), but interesting nonetheless. Where else might this be useful?
How To Monitor Your Services Hosted On AWS EC2 Instances
This feels like a lot of complexity to avoid using CloudWatch metrics, but it’s an interesting use of Lambda functions and AWS Secrets Manager.
Monitoring Kafka streams applications
If you rely on Kafka Streams, you should check this out. Personally, I got lost in a rabbit hole reading about Ziggurat, their “stream processing framework to build stateless applications on Kafka”.
Events
Monitorama PDX 2021 - September 13-15 (Portland, OR)
One of the first technical conferences to resume in-person events, Monitorama is returning to Portland, OR this fall. It looks like a return to form for one of our favorite events (ok, we might be biased). Hope to see you there!
Job Opportunities
Cloud Engineer at Redox (Remote)
SRE - Supercomputing at Tesla (Fremont, CA)
Cloud SRE - Reliability at Elastic (Remote)
Ready to lower your AWS bill? Now might be the perfect time for an AWS Cost Optimization project with The Duckbill Group. The Duckbill Group aims for a 15-20% cost reduction in identified savings opportunities through tweaks to your architecture–or your money back. (SPONSORED)
See you next week!
– Jason (@obfuscurity) Monitoring Weekly Editor