“We'll be hearing talks from leading open source developers and web operations luminaries, and then taking what we've learned to apply it towards advancing the state of open source monitoring and trending software.”
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“We'll be hearing talks from leading open source developers and web operations luminaries, and then taking what we've learned to apply it towards advancing the state of open source monitoring and trending software.”
Real talk ● Realize you can't store every bit of data you collect forever ● You would likely need more hardware to retain the data about your infrastructure than the infrastructure itself ● Logs are likely still your richest source of data ● Don't collect something just because it's tradition ● We need science not folklore
● I shouldn't need to go to a Tufte seminar to understand why shit is broken. ● We need a GoF for common visualizations of common data points ● Watch out for mud radios
Things we need to accept ● JSON costs you precision ● The JVM is not the end of the world ● Nagios isn't going anywhere ● Each additional component creates management overhead