Monitoring in the time of cloud native
As the systems we build become more distributed and (in the case of containerization) ephemeral, traditional monitoring tools prove to be grossly insufficient. Fortunately, the state of monitoring has evolved to meet these new demands, but it brings its own set of technical and organizational challenges. Cindy Sridharan offers an honest overview of monitoring challenges and trade-offs.
| Talk Title | Monitoring in the time of cloud native |
| Speakers | Cindy Sridharan (–) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Velocity Conference |
| Conf Tag | Build resilient systems at scale |
| Location | New York, New York |
| Date | October 2-4, 2017 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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The infrastructure space is in the midst of a paradigm-shifting change. The way organizations—from the smallest of startups to established companies—build and operate systems has evolved. But as the systems we build become more distributed and (in the case of containerization) ephemeral, traditional monitoring tools have proven to be grossly insufficient. Newer tools modeled along the lines of Google and Facebook’s internal tools have emerged to meet this challenge, and given how far both SaaS and open source tools have evolved in recent years, we now have an embarrassment of observability tools to choose from. These tools offer a great number of benefits over their predecessors, but they also bring their own set of technical and organizational challenges. Starting over from scratch isn’t a luxury most of us enjoy, and the most challenging part about modernizing one’s observability stack is iteratively evolving it. Cindy Sridharan offers an honest overview of monitoring challenges and trade-offs. Topics include:
