Finding Signal in the Noise
Ilan Rabinovitch
@irabinovitch
Technical Community & Evangelism,
Datadog
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Monitor Everything
Datadog gathers performance data from all your application components.
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What do we mean by DevOps?
Culture
Automation
Metrics
Sharing
Damon Edwards and John Willis
DevOps Day LA
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Culture
“Organizations which design systems ...
are constrained to produce designs
which are copies of the communication
structures of these organizations”
- Melvin E. Conway
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Culture
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Automation
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Metrics
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Sharing
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Sharing
Looping Back on Culture
Describe the problem as your
“enemy” not each other
Learn Together
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Using and Sharing the same
metrics and measurements
across teams is key to avoiding
misunderstandings.
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Finding Signal in Noise
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Examples: nginx
Work Metrics:
• Requests per second
• Dropped connections
• Request time
• Server error rate
Resource metrics:
• Accepted connections
• Active connections
• Idle connections
Events:
• nginx started