Observability and Monitoring Special Report |
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Learn about the monitoring challenges confronting todays DevOps engineers, including approaches to metric collection and visualization, the classes of modern monitoring, and what methods work to tame complexity. Free eBook – Download Now. Sponsored content |
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Site Reliability Engineering intersects software engineering with IT Operations and is an approach created at Google in 2003 and described in detail in their 2016 book, Site Reliability Engineering, How Google Runs Production Systems. Digital experience intelligence provider, Catchpoint, surveyed 416 Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) with the goal of understanding what it means to be a SRE. | Observability gives you a picture of the system’s current health and can replace certain types of testing. For low-risk application areas you can rely on observability instead of testing, provided you have continuous delivery that provides fast feedback and allows you to release changes quickly. |
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In this eBook, we discuss the new highly complex and chaotic environments needed to support a modern digital business and how a new model in application performance management can deliver the actionable insights needed to maximize performance. Download Now. Sponsored content |
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Matt Bostock’s SRECON 2017 Europe talk covers how Prometheus, a metric-based monitoring tool, is used to monitor CDN, DNS and DDoS mitigation provider CloudFlare’s globally distributed infrastructure and network. |
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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the addition of four new hosted projects over the past month: Docker’s Notary, The Update Framework (TUF), Lyft’s Envoy, and Uber’s Jaeger. |
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Golden signals are increasingly popular these days due to the rise of SRE. This article outlines what golden signals are, and how to monitor and use them in the context of various common services. |
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With GDPR, taking care of personal data is an organisation-wide responsibility, but in the operations we can provide a lot of supporting tools to help deal with the multiple facets of this problem. |
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InfoQ recently sat down with Mike Julian, author of Practical Monitoring , and discussed the role and implementation of effective monitoring within software development and the business. |
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Oracle has announced the deprecation of Object::finalize. We take a deep look to understand how it works, why it's being deprecated and the recommended approach to replace finalization. |
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This eMag explores the topic of observability in-depth, covering the role of the “three pillars of observability”: monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing . |
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Learn what new monitoring, analytics and alerting techniques are best suited for containers, why an open data model is key to understanding and tracking microservice dependencies, and how to establish monitoring across the entire application lifecycle to increase development speed and quality. Learn more. Sponsored content |
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Adrian Cole overviews debugging latency problems using call graphs created by Zipkin and reviews the ecosystem, including tools to trace other languages and frameworks. |
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Ian Luites introduces wobserver, discussing the background of the project and showing how to mount it into a Phoenix application, hook it up to Prometheus, and deploy it behind a load balancer. |
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Marcin Grzejszczak and Reshmi Krishna describe how to do distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin, demoing incorporating these technologies into an existing stock trading application. |
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Rafal Gancarz provides an overview of monitoring capabilities required for serverless apps -metering, logging, tracing, auditing, alerting-, and helpful AWS services. |
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