NYLUG Presents: Tobias Schmidt  -on-  Prometheus:  next generation monitoring (in Go)
Channel: NYLUG
Date: 27/07/2016

This talk gives a high-level overview of modern monitoring approaches and explain why and how monitoring should be used. Next it highlights Prometheus' features, use cases, design and differences to other monitoring systems as well as provides some background information on why it was written at SoundCloud. In the main part Tobias shows how Prometheus can be used to monitor Linux servers, applications and network infrastructure. Many examples are provided and the talk finish with an outlook on how the collected metrics and information can be used in visualizations and automatic alerts.

Links:
https://prometheus.io/

Speaker Bio:
Tobias Schmidt has been a Production Engineer at SoundCloud for the last five years and is an active contributor to the Prometheus monitoring project. He is the maintainer of SoundCloud's internal container management system and currently working on the transition of SoundCloud's infrastructure onto Kubernetes.