Introduction to monitoring with Prometheus - Jamie Wilkinson - LCA2016

Jamie Wilkinson gave on overview of the Prometheus monitoring tool, based on the Borgmon white paper released by Google.

• Monitoring complexity was becoming expensive.
• Borgmon inverted the monitoring process
  • Was heavily relied upon at Google.
• Prometheus, Bosun, Riemann are stream based monitoring like Borgman.
• Prometheus scrapes /varz
• Sends alerts as key value pairs
• Using shards for scaling.
• Defines targets in a YAML file.
• Data storage is in a global database in memory
• Use "higher level abstractions to lower cost of maintenance
• Use metrics, not checks
• Design alerts based on service objectives.

Another brilliant monitoring talk from Jamie.