Talk: Monitoring: Turning Noise into Signal
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Chris Oldwood
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Monitoring: Turning Noise into Signal
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This session looks at what techniques we can use to make monitoring of our systems, its dependencies, and its consumers easier and more comprehensible so that when the klaxon sounds we are better informed about where the problem may lie. And then, when resolved, how that knowledge is fed back into the backlog so the system can adapt to it in the future to help separate the signal from the noise.
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The free-text format log file has been a staple technique for diagnosing systemic problems for decades and yet it has always served its masters poorly by being a victim of its own unstructured nature. Even just a little structure and an appreciation of the two competing narratives of operations and development can make a big difference to gaining an understanding about what's really going on inside our systems. Modern tooling, which provides superior querying and visualisation today, is no panacea and still requires effort to compensate for their limitations. Ultimately the easier our code is to reason about the easier it is to know what is going on inside it without taking a scatter-gun approach. Less really can be more when we stop downing ourselves with diagnostic data.
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