Monitor Like a Boss

"Monitor Like a Boss"...surviving millions of daily visits on thousands of websites as a third-party Javascript service. Here's a quick overview of how we monitor 3M+ daily visits at Olark using simple logging + hashtags.

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1. Your Javascript Widget Won't Survive 3M+ Daily Visits Matt Pizzimenti matt@olark.com @mjpizz on twitter + github
2. MONITOR LIKE A BOSS Your Javascript Widget Won't Survive 3M+ Daily Visits Matt Pizzimenti matt@olark.com @mjpizz on twitter + github
3. chat application lives on your website connects customers to your IM
5. testing is not enough
6. testing is not enough
9. COOKIES DO NOT WORK IN OTHER- ORIGIN IFRAMES :)
10. deep application-level monitoring
11. tracking event counts
12. log("something weird happened #warn")
13. log("something weird happened #warn")
14. breaking down events
15. log("cookie problems #nocookies_for_session #warn")
16. log("cookie problems #nocookies_for_session #warn")
17. watching performance
18. log("received configuration #perf_assets=200")
19. log("received configuration #perf_assets=200")
20. does it really matter for user experience?
21. faster load times more people chatting slower load times less people chatting
22. "soft" metrics help to validate other metrics
23. how does it all work?
24. Olark Olark Olark Olark jslogger collection Log messages go in... jslogger collection jslogger collection syslog aggregation
25. Olark Olark Olark Olark jslogger collection Log messages go in... jslogger collection jslogger collection syslog aggregation hashmonitor parsing + calculation tinyfeedback history + visualization
26. jslogger collection ...application metrics come out. jslogger collection jslogger collection syslog aggregation hashmonitor parsing + calculation tinyfeedback history + visualization
27. ...application metrics come out. calculation tinyfeedback history + visualization
28. Olark Olark Olark Olark jslogger collection Log messages go in... ...application metrics come out. jslogger collection jslogger collection syslog aggregation hashmonitor parsing + calculation tinyfeedback history + visualization
29. hashmonitor ...demo? github.com/olark/hashmonitor
30. Matt Pizzimenti matt@olark.com @mjpizz on twitter + github github.com/olark/hashmonitor github.com/steiza/tinyfeedback wanna monitor like a boss? THANKS!
31. bonus graphs!
32. after fixing window.escape
33. old embed code