Flapjack: past present future - Monitoring Meetup PDX May 2014

Slides from a talk at Jive's May 2014 Monitoring Meetup in Portland.

Covers the history of Flapjack, what's we need to ship for Flapjack 1.0, and where Flapjack is headed to next.

Transcript

1. Past, Present, Future
2. What is flapjack?
3. Monitoring alert routing system
4. Composable
5. Rollup
6. Alert routing
8. • event
9. • event • ↪ notify?
10. • event • ↪ notify? • ↪ who?
11. • event • ↪ notify? • ↪ who? • ↪ how?
12. API driven
13. Developed + used in production at:
14. Developed + used in production at: Developers: Ali Graham Jesse Reynolds Project manager: Lindsay Holmwood
15. +
18. Large numbers of potential contacts
19. Check engine independence
20. Single pane of glass
22. Where we've come from
24. How does it work?
25. Contact
26. Contact Checks Checks Media
27. Contact Checks Checks Media Checks Checks Notification Rules
28. Contact Checks Checks Media Checks Checks Notification Rules Checks Checks Entities
29. Contact Checks Checks Media Checks Checks Notification Rules Checks Checks Checks Checks Checks Entities
30. Contact Checks Checks Media Checks Checks Notification Rules History (maintenance, acks, state changes) Checks Checks Checks Checks Checks Entities
32. event producers
33. event producers processors
34. event producers processors gateways
35. processor notifier Email SMS Jabber PagerDuty Web API Sensu Sensu::Extension::Flapjack Nagios nagios-receiver Icinga flapjackfeeder
37. Alert summarisation (rollup)
39. • per media,
40. • per media, • per contact
41. • per media, • per contact • thresholds
42. Contact Checks Checks Media Checks Checks Notification Rules History (maintenance, acks, state changes) Checks Checks Checks Checks Checks Entities
43. Contact Checks Checks Media Checks Checks Notification Rules History (maintenance, acks, state changes) Checks Checks Checks Checks Checks Entities Checks Checks Summary Threshold
45. Where we are
46. Flapjack 1.0
47. JSONAPI
48. Minimal Viable UI
49. Clean CLI [todo]
51. Where we're going
52. Flapjack 1.x
53. Elastic contact <=> entity relationships
54. —
55. Improved Visualisation
56. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjZY-X4KG68
57. More event producers HTTP. CloudWatch! Consul?
58. More gateways VictorOps, OpsGenie
59. Golang bindings
60. Better packaging
61. Alternative messaging transports?
63. Flapjack 2.0
64. Sandstorm ali-graham/sandstorm
65. Redis sharding
66. Alert auditing
67. Escalation?
69. We need your help!
70. We are here to help you!
71. We are listening!
72. Where do you want to go?
73. Past, Present, Future