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Monitoring without alerts
and why it actually makes sense
Alois Reitbauer
@aloisreitbauer
www.ruxit.com
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No alerts
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To better understand why and when
applications are not working
Why?
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Scalability
Context
Dynamics
3 Reasons
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Alerting – And how it breaks
We only have user-facing alerts
Problem
We need an alert for metric X
Problem
We need an alert for metric Y
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More alerts don’t help us better
solve problems
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Finding causal dependencies
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Monitor
everything that
is relevant and
let machines do
the analysis
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Context
matters
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Can you tell the difference
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Build a model don’t just collect data
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Problems are not static,
but alerts are
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We can do better than charts
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