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Microsoft Releases a Preview of the Integration of Prometheus with Azure Monitor for Containers
Recently Microsoft announced the integration of Prometheus, a popular open-source metric monitoring solution and part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation, with Azure Monitor for containers. This integration is currently available in a preview stage for testing.
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Athena: Automated Build Health Monitoring at Dropbox Engineering
Dropbox’s engineering team runs ~35,000 builds and millions of automated tests, many of which can fail either due to bad commits or due to environmental conditions. The team created a build monitoring system to minimize the manual intervention necessary to detect and quarantine flaky tests, and notify code authors.
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Expo: Real Time A/B Testing and Monitoring with Spark Streaming and Kafka at Walmart Labs
The WalmartLabs engineering team developed a real time A/B testing tool called Expo that collects and analyzes user engagement metrics. It uses Spark Structured Streaming to process the incoming data and stores the metrics in KairosDB.
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Scaling Graphite at Booking.com
Booking.com's engineering team scaled their Graphite deployment from a small cluster to one that handles millions of metrics per second. Along the way, they modified and optimized Graphite's core components - the carbon-relay and carbon-cache, and the rendering API.
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Vector Performance Monitoring Tool Adds eBPF, Unified Host-Container Metrics Support
Vector, the open source performance monitoring tool from Netflix, added support for eBPF based tools using a PCP daemon, a unified view of container and host metrics, and UI improvements.
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Evolution of Metrics Collection and Log Aggregation at Coinbase
Luke Demi, software engineer at Coinbase, writes about the changes in monitoring and logging that have taken place at Coinbase since mid-2018. Coinbase moved from a self-managed Elasticsearch cluster that served the dual purpose of log analysis and metrics visualization, to Datadog for metrics collection and managed Elasticsearch on AWS for log aggregation.
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Amazon Introduces AWS Cloud Map: "Service Discovery for Cloud Resources"
In a recent blog post, Amazon introduced a new service called AWS Cloud Map which discovers and tracks cloud resources. With the rise of microservice architectures, it has been increasingly difficult to manage dynamic resources in these architectures. But, using AWS Cloud Map, developers can monitor the health of databases, queues, microservices, and other cloud resources with custom names.
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Grafana Adds Log Data Correlation to Time Series Metrics
The Grafana team announced an alpha version of Loki, their logging platform that ties in with other Grafana features like metrics query and visualization. Loki adds a new client agent promtail and serverside components for log metadata indexing and storage.
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Inside Stack Overflow’s Monitoring Systems
Nick Craver, architecture lead at Stack Exchange, wrote about their monitoring systems in a recent article. He discussed the philosophy and motivation behind their monitoring strategy and talked about their toolset - mainly Bosun, Grafana and Opserver.
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Scaling Observability at Uber: Building In-House Solutions, uMonitor and Neris
Uber’s infrastructure consists of thousands of microservices supporting mobile applications, infrastructure, and internal services. To provide high observability of these services, Uber’s Observability team built two in-house monitoring solutions: uMonitor for time-series metrics-based alerting, and Neris for host-level checks and metrics.
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Q&A with the Creator of Checkless, a Low-Cost, Simple Site Monitoring Tool
Steve Elliott wanted a simple, cheap way to monitor uptime for his websites. He found most off-the-shelf tooling to either be too complex or too costly. This lead him to build Checkless, a serverless tool that can monitor sites for uptime via ping-based checks and depending on your usage, can potentially be free to use.
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Pinterest Switches from OpenTSDB to Their Own Time Series Database
The Pinterest engineering team has used OpenTSDB for storing and querying metrics since 2014. Recently, they developed and switched to their own time series database called Goku to mitigate various performance issues in OpenTSDB caused by a growth in the amount of metrics data.
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Prometheus Monitoring Platform "Graduates" from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
On August 9th, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced open source monitoring toolkit, Prometheus, has graduated from its incubation status. In order to achieve this rating, projects must demonstrate growth, documentation, organized governance processes, commitment to community sustainability and inclusivity.
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Uber Open Sources Its Large Scale Metrics Platform M3
Uber’s engineering team released its metrics platform M3 as open source which it has been using internally for some years. The platform was built to replace its Graphite based system, and provides cluster management, aggregation, collection, storage management, a distributed time series database (TSDB) and a query engine with its own query language M3QL.
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Plaid.com’s Monitoring System for 9600+ Integrations
Plaid.com has integrations with over 9600 financial institutions, and their monitoring challenges arise from the heterogeneous nature of these integrations and as well as their large number. They rebuilt their monitoring system on Kinesis, Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana to solve the challenges of scalability and low latency.