Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In today’s cloud environments, a typical observability stack might include an Elasticsearch cluster for logging, a few Prometheus servers for metrics monitoring, and an AppDynamics deployment for APM. You may run something similar – most observability stacks consist of multiple siloed tools dedicated to collecting and analyzing specific types of monitoring data.

This is the third in a series of four ScienceLogic blogs on the topic of the Department of Defense Information Network (DoDIN), including what it is, what it means to be approved under DoDIN standards, why it is important to both our federal and private industry customers, and the process for being approved for listing.

For many engineering leaders, measuring their team’s impact can be hard to quantify and a face:palm process, filled with searching through logs and exporting data sets to cobble together a report that most people won’t even look at twice. And let’s be honest, if you wanted to spend time making reports, you wouldn’t have become a developer.

On 2021-10-29, initial support for Prometheus Agent was merged, and it is slated for inclusion in Prometheus v2.32! This feature has a bit of a lengthy history to it: It took a little while to get to where we are today, but I’m thrilled that we were able to use the Grafana Agent code to enable agent-like functionality in the prometheus/prometheus repository.

Tracing has become essential for monitoring today’s increasingly distributed architectures. But complex production applications produce an extremely high volume of traces, which are prohibitively expensive to store and nearly impossible to sift through in time-sensitive situations. Most traditional tracing solutions address these operational challenges by making sampling decisions before a request even begins its path through your system (i.e., head-based sampling).

In this digital era, applications are used on a daily basis to make our life easier. A lot of software applications are launched every day, continuously increasing competition in the market. There are thousands of applications available for a task. But, the success of any application highly depends on its performance. A good-performing application provides a flawless user experience to the customers. Ultimately, making performance a crucial metric for benefitting the company owning the software product.

When it comes to gaining control over complex distributed systems, there are many indicators of performance that we must understand. One of the secrets to understanding complicated systems is the use of additional cardinality within our metrics, which provides further information about our distributed systems’ overall health and performance. Developers rely on the telemetry captured from these distributed workloads to determine what really went wrong and place it in context.