prometheus

Got a Need for Speed? Accelerate Your Prometheus Dashboard Using Trickster

Got a Need for Speed? Accelerate Your Prometheus Dashboard Using Trickster

December 16, 2019

We live in a world where high performance, and speed are essential. A few extra seconds of response time on a dashboard can be a deal breaker. Many dashboards request the entire time range of data fro …
HomeAway's Multi-Cloud Traffic Director

HomeAway's Multi-Cloud Traffic Director

December 13, 2019

Case Study about how HomeAway built a global Multi Cloud Traffic Management solution using Content Distribution Networks and a hybrid of public and private clouds. Over the last two years we have grow …
Sharded and Federated Prometheus Servers to Monitor Distributed Databases

Sharded and Federated Prometheus Servers to Monitor Distributed Databases

December 12, 2019

At eBay we have developed a geo-distributed transactional document store called NuData. It is deployed on Kubernetes. The current deployment has thousands of pods across three datacenters, and is moni …
Automated Kubernetes Scalability Testing

Automated Kubernetes Scalability Testing

December 10, 2019

Kubernetes supports large clusters according to the docs, but how does it actually scale? Who came up with those limits? What are the actual numbers? To challenge this we built a CI/CD environment gea …
Collecting Operational Metrics for a Cluster with 5,000 Namespaces

Collecting Operational Metrics for a Cluster with 5,000 Namespaces

December 10, 2019

Kubernetes is popular to provide a multi-tenant, shared infrastructure layer for many eng teams within an org. This is great for the teams, as they have a stable, scalable cluster to build upon. Howev …
Lightning Talk: TSDB: The Engine behind Prometheus

Lightning Talk: TSDB: The Engine behind Prometheus

December 8, 2019

Prometheus 2.0 release came with a lot of features and improvements and a big contributor to that is TSDB, the new storage engine it came with. TSDB is also a Golang library this means anyone looking …
A Survey of the OSS Tracing Ecosystem

A Survey of the OSS Tracing Ecosystem

December 6, 2019

There has been great movement over the past two years in the tracing landscape. In this relatively short period of time, projects such as OpenTracing, Jaeger, and OpenCensus have joined Zipkin in the …
Prometheus for Devs

Prometheus for Devs

December 3, 2019

Having Microservices without proper monitoring tools is like driving the freeway without lights at night. One of those proper tools is Prometheus. In this workshop I will discuss/show * the general ar …
How to Export Prometheus Metrics from Just About Anything

How to Export Prometheus Metrics from Just About Anything

December 2, 2019

Prometheus exporters bridge the gap between Prometheus and systems which cannot export metrics in the Prometheus format. During this talk, you will learn how to gather metrics from a wide variety of d …
Scalable Monitoring Using Prometheus with Apache Spark

Scalable Monitoring Using Prometheus with Apache Spark

December 1, 2019

As spark applications move to a containerized environment, there are many questions about how to best configure server systems in the container world. In this talk we will demonstrate a set of tools t …
Keynote: Prometheus 2.0 The Next Scale of Cloud Native Monitoring

Keynote: Prometheus 2.0 The Next Scale of Cloud Native Monitoring

November 30, 2019

In November 2017 Prometheus 2.0 was released. Along with several semantical improvements it got fitted with a new storage engine that addresses the new relatives of highly dynamic Cloud Native infrast …
Autoscale your Kubernetes Workload with Prometheus

Autoscale your Kubernetes Workload with Prometheus

November 29, 2019

Time to autoscale your cloud native deployments, but how do you make it happen? In the past, easier said than done. Lack of guidance and inconsistent implementations of solutions have made autoscaling …
Pod Anomaly Detection and Eviction using Prometheus Metrics

Pod Anomaly Detection and Eviction using Prometheus Metrics

November 27, 2019

Dealing with system stability in a distributed and changing environment is a challenge: a single failing pod can affect the majority of your system responses. From Kubernetes probes to Istio circuit b …
How We Used Jaeger and Prometheus to Deliver Lightning-Fast User Queries

How We Used Jaeger and Prometheus to Deliver Lightning-Fast User Queries

November 26, 2019

This talk comes from practical experience of running a cloud-based SAAS under Kubernetes for the last two years. Prometheus is good for the big picture view of how things are running, while Jaeger act …
Building a Kubernetes Scheduler using Custom Metrics

Building a Kubernetes Scheduler using Custom Metrics

November 24, 2019

The default Kubernetes scheduler does a fantastic job for typical workloads, but when you have specific requirements (like higher level application metrics) you might need other scheduling methods. …
Getting Started with Logging in Kubernetes

Getting Started with Logging in Kubernetes

November 24, 2019

A good practice when deploying applications in Kubernetes is to set proper instrumentation to gather insights and solve general monitoring needs. Logging is a fundamental piece of the instrumentation …
Why Running kubelet on Your Vacuum Robot Is (Not) a Good Idea

Why Running kubelet on Your Vacuum Robot Is (Not) a Good Idea

November 20, 2019

The Xiamio Mi Vacuum Robot is an affordable bit of kit, yet comes with a powerful SoC and utilises a wide range of sensors. A talk at 34C3 last year showed how to gain root access to the underlying Ub …
Federated Prometheus Monitoring at Scale

Federated Prometheus Monitoring at Scale

November 18, 2019

In Media Build and Products under Oath, We run 12 production Kubernetes clusters running across our data centers with ~1200 machines with multi-tenant deployments. We monitor our cluster with Promethe …
Declarative Multi-Cluster Monitoring with Prometheus

Declarative Multi-Cluster Monitoring with Prometheus

November 17, 2019

Loodse and CoreOS run many different setups across multiple heterogeneous public and private clouds. In this context, they faced some challenges with deploying the monitoring infrastructure. Matthias …
Feeding Realworld Data into Prometheus Microservice Applications on Kubernetes

Feeding Realworld Data into Prometheus Microservice Applications on Kubernetes

November 16, 2019

Burkhard Noltensmeier shares his experience developing a Microservice data aquisition platform on Kubernetes. The Platform consists of Edge Devices with to import Machine Data from factory floor or bu …