November 24, 2019

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Prometheus: The Unsung Heroes [I]

Prometheus: The Unsung Heroes [I]

Prometheus is a fantastic tool, Prometheus/Kubernetes integration is amazing, PromQL is expressive. We have all heard the superlatives and the articles, but this talk explores those tools of the Prom …
Talk Title Prometheus: The Unsung Heroes [I]
Speakers Alejandro Ramírez (Head of DevOps, Swisscom Directories AG)
Conference CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe
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Location Berlin Congress Center
Date Mar 28-30, 2017
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Prometheus is a fantastic tool, Prometheus/Kubernetes integration is amazing, PromQL is expressive…. We have all heard the superlatives and the articles, but this talk explores those tools of the Prometheus ecosystem that are not under the spotlight, but should not be discarded as mere footnotes to the saga. We will discuss how mtail and the snmp_exporter allowed us to instrument our load balancer appliance and give us more insights into our performance in such a critical component of our system.

ecosystem prometheus load balancer snmp performance kubernetes
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