The Art of Monitoring With James Turnbull

Don’t forget to check out the book itself! The Art of Monitoring.

Back in the day, James also wrote a book called Pro Nagios 2.0.

Three stages of monitoring maturity:

• Manual, user-initiated, or no monitoring (aka Bridget’s example of “we know things are broken because the customer calls us to complain”)
• Reactive
• Proactive

“You will eventually get to CPU, memory, and disk, but a lot later after you start with the things you should really care about” - James

“Too much monitoring is binary - this thing either works or it doesn’t” - James

Also mentioned:

• Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
• RFC 1149 IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers - IETF

Community & Event Stuff

Where we’ll be for the upcoming fortnight

• Matt is getting married at the Jim Beam distillery on Saturday
• Bridget will miss the bourbon wedding as she’s heading to Joe’s family reunion followed by GOTO Copenhagen.

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Upcoming conferences

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Open CFPs

• A lot of devopsdays CFPs closing soon - see devopsdays.org/speaking
• OSCON’s CFP closes Oct 25

Check Outs

James

• Skyliner.io
• Jason Dixon
• Vote, but not for Trump

Bridget

• Cloud Foundry Summit is going on in Frankfurt right now
• honeycomb - explorable operations metrics from Charity Majors
• MicroBadger - for docker image inspection Liz Rice & Anne Curry at Microscaling Systems

Trevor

• Windows Server 2016 is GA!

Matt

• InSpec has shipped 1.0! You can check it out at http://inspec.io/ InSpec is compliance as code – a human-readable language for automating the continuous testing and compliance auditing of your entire infrastructure. You can also use it to verify if your servers and applications are configured correctly.
• Self-promotion: working on a shareable theme using hugo for podcasts. Check it out at github.com/mattstratton/castanet