Stop flying blind! (i.e. Why monitoring is no longer an option.)

Abstract:

In the 21st century successful teams are data-driven. This talk begins with an introduction to why monitoring in near-real time is now a "must-have" in DevOps to enable continuous deployment i.e. "Monitoring is to DevOps as Unit Tests are to Development". We’ll then present an abstract model of a complete monitoring system broken down into it's fundamental components (e.g. collection, aggregation, common storage, visualization, alerting) and discuss multiple solutions (OSS and services) for each component. Explains the primary motivations/benefits of building a common monitoring infrastructure such arbitrary correlation/analysis of metrics across your all levels of your stack and systematic alerting/escalation. Examines how dashboards service multiple purposes such as:

• aberration detection
• radiate information in a common format to the entire team
• encapsulate best practices for initial fire-fighting triage.

Speaker: Joseph Ruscio, Co-Founder and CTO at Librato, Inc