Many of us have hobbies. Many of them are beautiful or useful to the world. Mine is not.
My personal white whale is to find the perfect way to peel an orange. Years of research and experimentation have not yet led to an ideal solution, but that's also precisely why it's taught me 4 key principles about Observability.
"We completely and utterly fucked it up by defining observability to mean “gigachad-scale JSON logs parser with a fancy search engine.” Really? Really? That’s the “we solve Real Serious Business Problems™” strategy we went with?"
We recently got a wifi-enabled hot tub. Some enterprising soul had already created a HA addon to work with it, so I set about implementing #observability, #automation and #alerting.
Amongst other things, it now starts heating automatically if there's plunge pricing on #octopusenergy Agile
The Speed of Light Will Cap Traditional Centralized #Observability
There are lots of reasons that DevOps teams have been looking into #o11y Pipelines and their in-flight processing possibilities: cost, performance. But I rarely hear about the hardest limit:
@grafana always scales up infrastructure for Black Friday as it's an important time for our customers. We do it in general, but some customers require specific increases.
The market leader in an end consumer segment just asked us to scale the logs infra up by 25% and keep metrics as-is.
When I keep saying that metrics are the most efficient data format in observability, this is what I mean...
Loved crossing the streams and getting to talk about both #observability and #pkm in one fell swoop. Lots of good conversation about the impostor syndrome too— a good case for learning in public. Thanks to @arjanbroere for the photo! #pkmsummit24
For the 2024 edition of #FOSDEM the #Monitoring and #Observability devroom received 61 submissions, a record high, and the average quality was also quite high.
Building a schedule is a luxury problem... I just sent out the first ten acceptance emails; we have two more slots and will build the schedule with actual times once the reconfirmations come in.
Teams should have a regular review to determine what of their #Observability data is actually being used. Otherwise, "just in case" becomes a value-less justification with uncapped costs.
🔴 Ahora mismo estoy hablando con mis colegas de @grafana , el Señor Performo y Antonio Calero Merello, sobre una nueva serie de videos sobre observabilidad en español, Café con Grafana! Me pone nerviosa tener un livestream en español, pero es una buena oportunidad para mejorar mi español...
I was chatting about #observability with some people today, and something reminded me of an old talk I did. I looked it up and found that it was my keynote at #Monitorama 2014. It's interesting to watch a call to action kind of talk, and to reflect on what has changed since. There's better tools for #microservices, #DevOps and #cloud now than nine years ago, but I don't think people paid much attention to the 5 rules I came up with, and I still think they matter... https://vimeo.com/95064249
What happens when you go to a work conference (KubeCon in Paris) and then go straight from that to a hobby one (PKM Summit in Utrecht)? Well, in my case, you throw together a talk that's a mix of both of those passions. Here's me rehashing a talk I did at PKM Summit that was all about relating system observability to what it might mean to make your Personal Knowledge Management system observable too: https://youtu.be/i-uNtkre1aE
Join us in Berlin next month for this special meet up 😎
Deutsche Bank x VictoriaMetrics: Best Practices on Scaling Observability
📍Deutsche Bank Berlin Technology Centre
🗓️ April 11th from 6.30pm
With a talk by Aliaksandr Valialkin on large-scale logging made easy & a talk by Dmitry Evdokimov on Fixed Income & Currencies - VictoriaMetrics cluster evolution.
Great to see more people catching on to ClickHouseDB. We’re using ClickHouse at @honeybadger to power our upcoming logging/observability tool (Honeybadger Insights).
We’re also benchmarking a replacement backend for #Elasticsearch. Looks like quite a performance gain so far!
Will hopefully have more to share soon, but in the meantime we discussed this on the latest episode of @FounderQuest. Give it a listen: