prometheus

Tutorial: Docker Container Orchestration: Building Clusters in Production

January 5, 2020

So many of us want to take containers into production, but are unsure of the tools and best practices for doing so. This lab will have you deploying into a cluster and operate them in real-word scenar …

Kubernetes Day 2: Monitoring

December 28, 2019

There are plenty of ways to setup a Kubernetes cluster, kubeadm, bootkube, kargo, and a lot more, but what happens after setup? Monitoring your cluster health as well as the workload running in the cl …

Observability in a dynamically scheduled world

December 14, 2019

Over the past year, DigitalOcean's Delivery team has been building a runtime platform based on Kubernetes with the goal of making shipping code easier. A core component of this system is a monitoring and alerting system based on Prometheus and Alertmanager. Sneha Inguva offers an overview of the system and shares problems encountered, potential solutions, and key lessons learned in the process.

Prometheus Salon

December 13, 2019

The Prometheus Salon will feature talks from Prometheus developers, including an introduction to Prometheus for beginners, a closer look at how you can use Prometheus to monitor your Kubernetes cluste …

Bottoms-Up Adoption of a Microservices Workflow Using Kubernetes & Envoy

December 12, 2019

Many organizations start their microservices journey by (re)designing their application architecture and operational infrastructure. We started building our cloud application using this approach. We d …

If you Dont Monitor your Infrastructure, you Dont Own it! Regain Control Thanks to Prometheus [I]

December 10, 2019

In the French FedEx company we used Prometheus to monitor the infrastructure. It hosts a CQRS Architecture composed with Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, and microservices APIs in scala. This …

Embracing Cloud Native at a Thriving, Established Company

December 9, 2019

We are in the midst of a major shift at MailChimp. In many ways, we are a microcosm of the industry as a whole: moving from large monoliths to microservices and trying to figure out what that even mea …

Kubernetes in the Datacenter: Squarespaces Journey Towards Self-Service Infrastructure [I]

December 2, 2019

As Squarespaces engineering organization evolved, microservices became an obvious solution to quickly deliver new features and improve infrastructure reliability. We encountered significant challenge …

One Chart to Rule Them All: Continuous Deployment with Helm at Ticketmaster

November 30, 2019

As Kubernetes continues to mature, it's increasingly hard for users to keep track of the latest resource types, much less the best way to employ them. ReplicationControllers and Services were easy eno …

Prometheus Salon

November 30, 2019

Miss the first instance of the The Prometheus Salon or simply can't get enough? Join Prometheus developers for a closer look at how you can use Prometheus to monitor your Kubernetes cluster, and a dis …

Keynote: Prometheus: From Berlin to Bonanza

November 27, 2019

From its humble beginnings right here in Berlin in 2012, the Prometheus monitoring system has grown a substantial community with a comprehensive set of integrations. This talk will go over the core id …

Lessons Learned From Maintaining Continuous Delivery While Migrating From a Static Infrastructure to Kubernetes [B]

November 27, 2019

Finn.no is Norway's largest website. Whilst running on static infrastructure, we support 300 microservices, 1400 deploys a week, and 6 minutes from git push to production. But our platform didn't meet …

Counting with Prometheus [I]

November 26, 2019

Counters are one of the two core metric types in Prometheus, allowing for tracking of request rates, error ratios and other key measurements. Learn why are they designed the way they are, how client l …

OpenTracing Isn't Just Tracing: Measure Twice, Instrument Once [B]

November 26, 2019

Those building microservices at scale understand the role and importance of distributed tracing: its the most direct way to understand how and why a system is misbehaving. However, often this informa …

Grafana is Not Enough: DIY User Interfaces for Prometheus [I]

November 25, 2019

This talk gives a quick overview of the currently available Prometheus UIs and shows ways to build your own interfaces to enable your workflows. Most popular among the UIs is Grafana, which works well …

Configuring Prometheus for High Performance [A]

November 24, 2019

A key to Prometheus's success is its operational simplicity. It takes only minutes to get a server with a meaningful configuration up and running from scratch. However, once you need to run your Prome …

Integrating Long-Term Storage with Prometheus [A]

November 24, 2019

While Prometheus's built-in storage does not support long-term data retention and durability, Prometheus provides nascent interfaces for integration with external long-term storage systems. This talk …

Prometheus: The Unsung Heroes [I]

November 24, 2019

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 …

Monitor My Socks: Using Prometheus in a Polyglot Open Source Microservices Reference Architecture [I]

November 23, 2019

This presentation describes how Prometheus was integrated into a polyglot microservices application. We will use the "Sock Shop", a cloud-native reference microservices architecture to demonstrate som …

Ops for Developers - Monitor Your Java Application with Prometheus [I]

November 23, 2019

Prometheus is ready-to-go to monitor your infrastructure and your containers. Capturing simple metrics from a Java application can be done automatically. But Developers need to go one step further to …