How Prometheus Revolutionized Monitoring at SoundCloud

Overview

Explore how Prometheus revolutionized monitoring at SoundCloud in this 51-minute conference talk from GOTO Berlin 2017. Dive into the journey from no monitoring to a sophisticated system, covering topics like symptom-based alerting, blackbox monitoring, and container orchestration. Learn about Prometheus architecture, consolidation strategies, and integration with Kubernetes. Discover how to create effective alerts, utilize time series data, and implement alert routing. Gain insights into active exploration techniques and the use of dashboards for visualization. Perfect for those interested in modern monitoring solutions for microservices architectures.

Syllabus

Intro
About Prometheus
No Monitoring
Postmortem
Systems Monitoring
Nagios
Symptombased alerting
Blackbox monitoring
Why blackbox monitoring
What is monitoring
Container orchestration
Prometheus architecture
Consolidation
External Monitoring Providers
Prometheus Blackbox
Prometheus Monitoring Stack
Prometheus on Kubernetes
Prometheus servers web
Prometheus dashboards
Active exploration
Alert creation
Time series
Linear extrapolation
Severity critical
Alert routing
Slack
Questions