Hands-on Workshop: Envoy Metrics Demystified Workshop - Nic Jackson & Kerim Satirli, Hashicorp
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2022-10-28

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Hands-on Workshop: Envoy Metrics Demystified Workshop - Nic Jackson & Kerim Satirli, Hashicorp

In this workshop, you will learn how to leverage metrics emitted from Envoy proxy to gain rich application insights. The workshop will cover Envoy’s topology and how this relates to connection and request metrics. The difference between upstream and downstream metrics, why this matters, and how to monitor common reliability patterns like retries and outlier detection. You will also learn the basics of Prometheus PromQL and Grafana to fully equip you to build rich and informative dashboards for your applications.

The workshop will be hands-on, where you work through several scenarios in an example system consisting of HTTP and gRPC endpoints. Step by step, you will build on the core concepts learning how you can successfully apply them to fully harness the power of Envoy metrics.

Contents:
Common metric types, Gauges, Counters, Histograms
Envoy topology, listeners, filters, routers, and clusters
Application Level Metrics HTTP/gRPC
Using PromQL to gain insight from metrics
Visualizing Envoy metrics using Grafana dashboard