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Remember that old commercial from the eighties of the actor Chris Robinson saying “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV”? (Yes, I know it’s an old commercial, but the catchphrase has definitely outshone the original product placement.) Well, I would like to start this blog post by changing things up and saying that “I’m not a Database Administrator, but I like to play one on TV!” Or, um, well, at least I like to pretend to be a DBA. Sometimes.
Since StatsD was introduced by Etsy in 2011, it has become a mainstay of infrastructure monitoring. But as dev and ops teams rely more and more on containerized microservices, they have pushed the limits of StatsD’s design. One major shortcoming is that StatsD has no built-in support for tagging your metrics with key-value pairs.
Your customers are messaging, ordering, watching on a mobile device and — without a pause — carrying that experience to the web, desktop, tv, smart speaker, etc. Their expectations are that your service provides one seamless experience that goes with them where ever they are. That’s why you need resolution tools that work across organizational and technical boundaries. Now, maybe you’re tired of using an additional mobile focused tool when Sentry can cover both cases.
Last week on Slack: Eldin: Hey Christine, do you remember the first time you viewed a log file? Christine: Oh yes. I used Splunk as a support engineer and I remember. You? Eldin: I believe it was early 2000s. I was installing Slackware and a few network cards for a DIY router, and logs were critical. Hello again! We are Eldin and Christine from Solutions Engineering – a team at Grafana that is passionate about connecting people to our products – reporting back for duty.
Welcome to 2020, where Google Drive can fail for some of you but not others, you can’t access your passwords, and you can’t withdraw cash on vacation. This stranded on a desert isle dream was reality in the month of January, which saw drama in the financial services and internet infrastructure sectors. January’s downtime reinforces just how connected we have become, and how reliant we are on infrastructure that can seemingly fail on a whim.