2. Mad Props
Thanks to Coupa for hosting
and to Stackdriver for sponsoring
and to Advanced AWS for organizing.
3. Hi, I’m denise
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System Architect @ Maverix Biomics
18 years button pushing
Musical Chair Champion
Data center to cloud
Early Stackdriver user &
puppet module maintainer
7. Further Context
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Green field!
We treat instances like cattle*
Modern and crusty backend services
“Quaint” team
Monitor & report system, service, event and application
statistics in one place.
* As much as possible
8. What to do for monitoring?
Evaluate & Select
● In-house or hosted?
● Modern vs proven?
● Specialized vs general?
● Paid vs free?
9. Let’s Be Honest
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Not enough time
Small environment
More important work to do
Everyone else is doing it
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Installs base agent on all hosts
Configures API key
Includes plugins for supported services
Auto-upgrades agent
node /^dev-redis.*.stockmans.org$/ {
class { "stackdriver::redis":
stackdriver_redis_port
=> 6379,
stackdriver_redis_host
=> localhost,
stackdriver_redis_timeout => 2000,
}
}
Agent Deployment
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Create groups based on filtering criteria
Dashboards auto-created for each group
Groups used in custom dashboarding and alerting policies
Set it once and fuggetaboutit*
Groups