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Monitoring without alertsand why it actually makes sense

Alois Reitbauer@aloisreitbauerwww.ruxit.com

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No alerts

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To better understand why and when applications are not working

Why?

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ScalabilityContextDynamics

3 Reasons

ruxit theme 2014.05.15Alerting – And how it breaksWe only have user-facing alertsProblemWe need an alert for metric XProblemWe need an alert for metric Y

ruxit theme 2014.05.15More alerts don’t help us better solve problems

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Relating alerts to each other

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Monitor everything that is relevant and let machines do the analysis

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Context matters

ruxit theme 2014.05.15Can you tell the difference

ruxit theme 2014.05.15Build a model don’t just collect data

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Problems are not static,but alerts are

ruxit theme 2014.05.15We can do better than charts

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