Why observability matters - now and in the future (w/guest Grafana)
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The document discusses the importance of observability for software development and DevOps teams as they work with containerized services. It introduces Weave Cloud as a comprehensive monitoring solution, powered by Prometheus and Grafana, which enables teams to deploy, explore, and monitor applications efficiently. Key features include real-time monitoring, debugging capabilities, and customizable alerting options to enhance reliability and performance in software deployments.
Why observability matters - now and in the future (w/guest Grafana)
- 1. Why Observability Matters? now and in the future Monitoring containerized services with Weave Cloud and Grafana Neil Gehani - Director of Product, Weaveworks - @GehaniNeil 1
- 2. ● Who is this for? - Software Development/DevOps teams building modern software in containers ● Why Monitoring? ● Weave Cloud Monitor - Applications/Services Monitoring (powered by Prometheus) ● Weave Cloud Ops - Infrastructure Monitoring (powered by Prometheus and Grafana) ● Grafana - Visualizing Prometheus Metrics What the Webinar is about 2
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- 5. How will dev teams find and fix problems in this system? 5 Dev Team 1 Dev Team 2 Dev Team 3 Dev Team 4 DevOps Team 5 DevOps Team 6 DevOps Team 7 Dev Team 8
- 6. Weave Cloud One-click Ops Platform for Dev/DevOps Teams Powered by K8s + Prometheus 6
- 7. ●Deploy ○Dry run deploys - try before deploy ○Pull based Ops (GitOps) ○Fully automated or manual including rollbacks ●Explore ○Visual Map and Debug Applications -> Clusters, Pods, Containers, Services ○Time Travel - Compare states at different points in time ●Monitor ○Real-time and historical service, node, cluster monitoring ○Notebooks - Create, Modify, Save Prometheus queries (PromQL) ○Secure, Scalable, Multi-Tenant - as a Service ○Time Travel - Go back in time to see how applications behaved then and compare to now Weave Cloud - Deploy . Explore . Monitor 7
- 8. ● Monitor resource consumption ● Observe scaling & performance characteristics ● Alert and Notify when something goes wrong ● Explore and Debug problems Why Monitor? - Understand Application Behavior 8 Deliver Reliable Value Continuous Improvement
- 9. Deploy . Observe . Operate 9 01 Automated or Manual with rollbacks. Deployment event metrics correlated Deploy 02 Explore, Monitor, Alert, Notify, Log Observe 03 Manage apps resource usage on clusters. Add capacity on-demand to scale automatically Operate
- 10. Weave Cloud Explore - Real-time Visual Map, Debug, Time Travel 10
- 11. Weave Cloud Monitor - Scalable Prometheus as a Service 11
- 12. Instrumenting is easy with Prometheus 12
- 13. Prometheus Client Libraries - Supported OOB 13 e.g -> npm install —save epimetheus
- 14. Example - NodeJS Metrics 14
- 15. ● Scalable and simple solution for open source Prometheus ● Default monitoring solution as part of CNCF - trusted community support ● K8s cluster metrics available OOB ● Easy to instrument your app - supports all major client libraries ● Easy to customize displaying metrics using PromQL ● Easy to alert based on metrics OOB ● Many visualizations options available - e.g. Grafana Why Weave Cloud Monitoring for Dev/DevOps Teams? 15
- 16. Weave Cloud Ops - Grafana for Monitoring our operations 16 Built-in Prometheus provider
- 17. 17 PromQL Query
- 19. Reading List: • The RED Method: key metrics for microservices architecture • DIY Tutorial: RED Method • Dashboards as Code • Weave Cloud UI Alerts and Metrics • User-centric Alerting