The Art of Monitoring With James Turnbull

Friend of the podcast James Turnbull joins us to talk about his new book, The Art of Monitoring...and a little bit about this whole functional programming thing

Don’t forget to check out the book itself! The Art of Monitoring.

Back in the day, James also wrote a book called Pro Nagios 2.0.

Three stages of monitoring maturity:

Manual, user-initiated, or no monitoring (aka Bridget’s example of “we know things are broken because the customer calls us to complain”)
Reactive
Proactive

“You will eventually get to CPU, memory, and disk, but a lot later after you start with the things you should really care about” - James

“Too much monitoring is binary - this thing either works or it doesn’t” - James

Also mentioned:

Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
RFC 1149 IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers - IETF

Community & Event Stuff

Where we’ll be for the upcoming fortnight

Matt is getting married at the Jim Beam distillery on Saturday
Bridget will miss the bourbon wedding as she’s heading to Joe’s family reunion followed by GOTO Copenhagen.

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Check Outs
James

Skyliner.io
Jason Dixon
Vote, but not for Trump

Bridget

Cloud Foundry Summit is going on in Frankfurt right now
honeycomb - explorable operations metrics from Charity Majors
MicroBadger - for docker image inspection Liz Rice & Anne Curry at Microscaling Systems

Trevor

Windows Server 2016 is GA!

Matt

InSpec has shipped 1.0! You can check it out at http://inspec.io/ InSpec is compliance as code – a human-readable language for automating the continuous testing and compliance auditing of your entire infrastructure. You can also use it to verify if your servers and applications are configured correctly.
Self-promotion: working on a shareable theme using hugo for podcasts. Check it out at github.com/mattstratton/castanet