Issue 117
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Observability & Monitoring Community Slack
Come hang out with all your fellow Monitoring Weekly readers. I mean, I’m also there, but I’m sure everyone else is way cooler.
From The Community
YES YES YES ” The problem is that they weren’t monitoring from the customer’s perspective. Had they done that, it would have been clear that oodles of requests from some subset of customers were failing. They would have also realized that certain customers had all of their requests failing. For those customers, there were no nines to be had that day.”
My CloudWatch Critique Didn’t Age Well - Last Week in AWS
If you haven’t read my business partner’s blistering critique of CloudWatch, it’s a sight to see. It’s also embarrassingly outdated now (after only eight months!), so there’s that.
5 Ideas to Expand Your ETL Process Monitoring
You would be shocked how many businesses run on fragile, janky, ETL processes. Maybe this will help.
Understand Lambda Logging and Unlock CloudWatch Logs
“In this post, I’ll explain how Groups, Streams, and Events fit together, describe some relevant parts of the CloudWatch API and how Lambda interacts with it, then explain how to make use of your logs after they’re sent to CloudWatch.”
What to do when you have 1000 [Graylog] fields?
Are you using Graylog? This seems useful.
BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability
Brendan Gregg is writing a book on BPF. You know you want it.
Selecting the Right User Metric
I love this article for its focus on business-level user patterns and performance. When people say “monitor at the user first,” this is what they really mean.
What Is User Activity Monitoring?
“User Activity Monitoring (UAM) tracks the behavior of internal end-users–employees, subcontractors, partners, and so on–on a company’s networks, devices, and other IT resources.”
“I wanted to walk the community through deploying the Open Distro for Elasticsearch (ODfE) in Kubernetes as the core logging provider. I am calling it the ODfEFK, the Open Distro for Elasticsearch, Fluent and Kibana, which are all the required components for secure logging within k8s. I’m not great with acronyms, but it’s an absurd mouthful that makes me laugh, so why not?” I’m not sure how I feel about these acronyms, but hey, it’s a solid article.
Monitoring Linux Logs with Kibana and Rsyslog
A pretty in-depth walkthrough of setting up ELK and hooking rsyslog into it, plus some dashboarding with Kibana.
brotandgames/ciao - HTTP checks & tests (private & public) monitoring - check the status of your URL
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Events
Sensu Summit 2019 - September 9-10, 2019 - Portland, OR USA
Sensu Summit is one of my favorite events of the year (second only to Monitorama, Jason! <3) and it’s coming up soon. The folks at Sensu have always loved the Monitoring Weekly community, so they’re offering $100 off the ticket price. Just click this link to automatically have your discount applied.
See you next week!
– Mike (@mike_julian) Monitoring Weekly Editor