Issue 129
Some excellent articles this week, including an entire series on monitoring and some tools I hadn’t seen before. Enjoy!
This issue is sponsored by:
Get visibility into your complex applications, no matter where they’re deployed. Consolidate tools and eliminate blind spots by combining infrastructure and application monitoring, logging, RUM, and more. Get alerts in real-time, based on all your data without sampling. Check out a free trial of Splunk Observability Cloud today.
Articles & News on monitoring.love
Observability & Monitoring Community Slack
Come hang out with all your fellow Monitoring Weekly readers. This past week there were some fun threads around tracing, tools, and the infamous build-vs-buy argument. Join our Slack so you don’t miss out! 😃
From The Community
Making Tracing as a part of Engineering DNA
A peak behind the curtain at ShareChat, walking through their choice of Observability tools and some of their production numbers.
Common Kubernetes Errors Made by Beginners
Not a monitoring article per se, but it struck me that all of these mistakes could be alerted on without much effort.
Grafana Labs welcomes the Pace.dev team
I don’t usually cover acquisitions here, even in the monitoring space, but it’s fascinating to see Grafana Labs continue to expand at a torrid pace.
Troubleshooting Envoy with Kiali
TBQH, before this article I’d never heard of Kiali. Including this overview and a link to the project in the Tools section below.
Thoughts on HTTP instrumentation with OpenTelemetry
Lots to chew on here if you’re thinking about capturing tracing spans for HTTP requests.
Monitoring theory, from scratch
Not sure how I missed these, but Gil Bahat has an exhaustive series on monitoring theory and practice. It’s such a great series, I’m going to include all of the articles to date:
- The definitions
- Indicators and synthetics
- Metrics and thresholds
- Events and transactions
- Business process monitoring
Monitoring Software: Build vs. Buy
The build-vs-buy discussion came up in Slack this week and I managed to dig this one out of the Wayback Machine. I wrote this six years ago, but it still feels relevant today.
Another great Kubernetes dashboard overview from [my friend and fellow ex-Sensei] Rich Burroughs. Hope to see this series continue.
The Ops Agent is now GA and it leverages OpenTelemetry
If you’re using Google Cloud, take notice that Ops Agent is officially GA and will ultimately replace their legacy agents.
This issue is sponsored by:
See ROI on cloud and cloud native monitoring in minutes, free.</strong>
Try the OpsRamp cloud monitoring platform and discover and monitor cloud resources, configure alerts, and track performance with out-of-the-box dashboards in less than 60 minutes. It’s the easiest way to go from zero to multi-cloud visibility. And all for free. Start here.
Tools
“Kiali provides answers to the questions: What microservices are part of my Istio service mesh and how are they connected?”
“A highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters.”
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
Sr. Software Engineer, Observability at Slack (Remote)
Cloud Engineer II at Tracelink (North Reading, MA, USA)
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