Fleeting Metrics: Monitoring Short-lived or Serverless Jobs... Bartłomiej Płotka & Saswata Mukherjee
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 19/05/2022

Fleeting Metrics: Monitoring Short-lived or Serverless Jobs with Prometheus - Bartłomiej Płotka & Saswata Mukherjee, Red Hat

Prometheus is the leading open-source monitoring solution when it comes to metrics and alerting. It is a single binary that provides you with all you need to monitor your infrastructure and services. It has seen the shift from on-prem to cloud environments and has proven to be successful for users with all kinds of use cases. Prometheus was always designed to aggregate long-living metrics. However, this does not always go along with the solutions that are emerging in the CNCF ecosystem. Short-living workloads are increasingly common in form of Kubernetes batch jobs and serverless platforms like OpenFaas or Lambda and many more. This leads to the question, how and if we can use Prometheus to monitor and troubleshoot those kinds of jobs? In this talk, you will learn about the potential solutions that are emerging in the Prometheus ecosystem. Bartek and Saswata will dive into this problem and propose a set of solutions that could help in monitoring those short-living workloads using the Prometheus data model. The audience will see a demonstration of a solution that uses best practices to capture fleeting metrics and integrates them with Prometheus.