Graphite for business users

A presentation about Graphite and components that feed data into it for a non-technical audience, presented at Smiley Media.

Transcript

1. A (mostly) non-technical introduction Graphite for business users
2. “What is measured improves” Peter Drucker
3. the big picture statsd graphite newrelic others   alerting  dashboards
4. A library that allows us to measure what happens in our code statsd
5. Add numbers to a particular metric counters
6. counters # of emails sent # of “yes” clicks examples
7. Measure time spent between two moments timers
8. timers recommendation algorithm response time interest auto-complete response time examples
9. The instantaneous value of something. gauges Definition from http://codahale.com/codeconf-2011-04-09-metrics-metrics-everywhere.pdf
10. gauges online users total # of circulating tokens examples
11. keep in mind that... metrics can be aggregated counters.email.opens.daily_match.template_103.count counters.email.opens.daily_match.*.count counters.email.opens.*.*.count
12. keep in mind that... metrics can be calculated (more on this later...)
13. A real-time charting application for time-series data Graphite
14. Graphite whisper carbon webapp
15. demo time