Monitoring As A ServiceModernity and Self-Service
James Turnbull@kartar
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who-ot• CTO at Kickstarter
• Open source chap
• Funny accent
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Who are you folks?
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What's this all about?
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Modernity and Baudelairethe fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis ... the responsibility art has to capture that experience ... characterized by intense historical discontinuity ... openness to the novelty of the future ... a heightened sensitivity to what is unique about the present...
-- Philosophical Romanticism by Nikolas Kompridis
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Two phases1. Making monitoring modern
2. Making monitoring a service
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Phase 1: Making monitoring
modern
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Traditional monitoring (sucks)1. It's focussed on the wrong things.
2. It's often archaic.
3. It's not easily manageable.
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The right stuff
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Focus on business outcomes
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Top down1. Business logic.
2. Applications.
3. Services.
4. Infrastructure.
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Choose more modern tooling
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Push instead of Pull
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Focus on user experience and
performance
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Metrics are king
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Tame your notifications
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Automation is key
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And a stepping stone to the next phase
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Phase 2: Making monitoring a
service
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What's a service?
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Services are customer focussed
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Stop making your monitoring only
about you
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Talk to customers
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Gather requirements
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Change the cycle of monitoring
development
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Attach monitoring to product development
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Change the accountability
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Self-service is king
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Present an APINot a ticket
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Services
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Consoles
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Logging & Reporting
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You are not the only customer of your
monitoring
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Questions?@kartarhttps://
www.artofmonitoring.com
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