It's easy to get a demo Prometheus up and running with Docker. How do you take it beyond that and provide your own configuration?
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A blog on monitoring, scale and operational Sanity
When starting out it's easy to think that you need Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Deployment and all the other trending topics on Hacker News/Reddit/Lobsters. What do you really need?
Many of the companies I talk to either want to move off Graphite, or are already doing so. Let's look at how to get your existing data that's going to Graphite into Prometheus instead.
HAProxy is one of many pieces of software that Prometheus provides an integration with. Let's look at how to hook it in and use the built-in console template dashboard.
This week Microsoft removed unlimited storage from their OneDrive offering, because surprise surprise people were using it as unlimited storage. Does your product have features that cost you time and money, without your users paying accordingly?
Your service's traffic is steadily growing, latency has increased a bit but it's within reason. One day you launch a new customer and the latency jumps through the roof causing an outage. What happened? You hit the knee.
Grafana recently added support for Prometheus. Let's take a look at how to get it up and running.
It's a best practice with Prometheus that target labels should be constant over a target's entire lifetime. On the other hand it's useful to aggregate metrics across all the machines that are currently Apache servers. How can we do that?
I enjoy cooking and regularly make scrumptious meals for myself. Does this mean that I'm capable of running a busy kitchen? Of course not! So why assume that all software engineers can automatically run production services?
Cassandra is one of many Java-based systems that offers metrics via JMX. The JMX Exporter offers way to use these with Prometheus. By following these steps you can be up and running in under a minute!
