The RED Method defines three key metrics you should measure for every microservice in your architecture. It gives developers a template for instrumenting their services and building dashboards in a consistent, repeatable fashion.
Combining Jsonnet and Terraform allows you to write many dashboards in no time - in a reproducible way. And even to create basebricks for multiple dashboards and reuse them at will.
Significant amounts of time have been invested in performance testing and analysis of OpenStack. In this talk I share how we use Grafana and many other Open Source tools to monitor the performance of an OpenStack Cloud while benchmarking.
In this talk, we take a somewhat heretical stance in the monitoring world, and describe why and how we chose to use PostgreSQL as a Prometheus backend to support complex queries (and get a full SQL interface).
From zero to Kubernetes: Which challenges do I face while migrating a cloud-unready Java application such as HiveMQ from a classical Linux IT- environment to Docker-Orchestrator Kubernetes?