Monitoring without alerts
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The document discusses the limitations of traditional alert systems in application monitoring, emphasizing that an increase in alerts does not improve problem resolution. It advocates for a more comprehensive approach that relies on machine analysis and contextual understanding, rather than static alerts. The emphasis is on building models to capture relevant data and discern underlying issues effectively.
Monitoring without alerts
- 1. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 Monitoring without alerts and why it actually makes sense Alois Reitbauer @aloisreitbauer www.ruxit.com
- 2. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 No alerts
- 3. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 To better understand why and when applications are not working Why?
- 5. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 Alerting – And how it breaks We only have user-facing alerts Problem We need an alert for metric X Problem We need an alert for metric Y
- 6. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 More alerts don’t help us better solve problems
- 7. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Relating alerts to each other
- 8. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 Finding causal dependencies 1 10 100 1000 10000 100000 1000000 10000000 100000000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
- 9. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 Monitor everything that is relevant and let machines do the analysis
- 11. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 Can you tell the difference
- 12. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 Build a model don’t just collect data
- 13. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 Problems are not static, but alerts are
- 14. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 We can do better than charts
- 16. ruxit theme 2014.05.15 Try it for free at www.ruxit.com