Issue 273
Pretty eccentric collection of posts this week. From chaos engineering, to DNS monitoring, to Flux annotations, there’s a little bit of everything (except OTel, go figure). Enjoy the variety! 😸🌊🍉
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Destroy on Friday! A Chaos Engineering Experiment - Part 1
Fun post from Honeycomb describing a recent chaos engineering experiment. I wish more companies would share these types of learnings.
Observability From a Different Perspective
Strange analogy but still a great way to underscore the importance of observability in a world of unknown unknowns.
Prometheus and Service Discovery: A Perfect Match for Dynamic Environments
A review and comparison of Prometheus’ service discovery capabilities for cloud environments.
Automated Grafana Annotations from Flux Events
How to configure Flux to capture events as Grafana annotations. Definitely a helpful signal for anyone worried about regressions and reliability.
Proactive PostgreSQL Database(s) Performance Scanner
An opinionated script for checking Postgres query performance and providing suggested remediations. Not a monitoring tool per se, but no doubt there are some observability engineers out there who could benefit from this.
I have so many questions about the necessity for a tool like this; or perhaps, the feasibility of it in the ege of ephemeral systems. Still, an interesting collection of utilities for a very peculiar use case.
A wildly different take on DNS monitoring, this time with a custom packet capture utility. Probably not something you’d throw into production, but the learnings from such a tool could be a good addition to your toolbox.
Analyzing Prometheus Metrics with Spark and Athena: Uncovering Hidden Insights
Neat approach for analytical digging into Prometheus performance concerns.
See you next week!
– Jason (@obfuscurity) Monitoring Weekly Editor