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Concepts

• “4” golden monitoring signals
  • Metrics to choose from
    • Request Rate
    • Error Rate
    • Latency
    • Saturation
    • Utilization
  • Golden Signals variants
    • Google SRE
    • USE Method
    • RED Method
• TSZ Compression Technique (Facebook Paper)

TSDBs (Time Series DBs)

Wide-range TSDB Comparison

• M3 (Prometheus, etcd, replication, Scale at Uber: 500Mio/s, Billions Storage)
• Thanos (Prometheus, federation)
• Grafana Mimir (Prometheus, scale up to 1Mrd active time series)
• InfluxDB (commercial, replication, good scale)
• eXtremeDB (commericial)
• TimescaleDB (Postgres, replication)
• Graphite/Whisper (no replication)
• Prometheus
• DalmatinerDB
• Riak-TS

Alarming / Paging / SMS Notification

All SaaS

• PagerDuty
• VictorOps
• BigPanda
• OpsGenie
• AlertOps
• iLert

DNS, Ping

• SmokePing - Monitoring network latency and loss

Network Mapping

Mapping Solutions

• NMPs Overview
• FrameFlow
• Solarwinds Topology Mapper
• ScienceLogic CloudMapper

Network Forensics

• TNV: network visualizer
• Netgrok

Host-based Service Monitoring

Self-hosted:

• Nagios
• Icinga 2
• check_mk
• Shinken
• Splunk
• Sensu
• Groundworks

Saas APMs:

• NewRelic
• AppDynamics
• DataDog
• Dynatrace
• Stackify Retrace
• Ruxit
• Sysdig Cloud
• Instana
• SignalFX
• SemaText (Metrics & Logs combined, correlation, Influx DB API for metrics, Elasticsearch API for logs)

Docker/Kubernetes

See also this review

• Prometheus
• Hawkular
• DataDog (SaaS)
• Sensu
• Scout
• Sysdig Cloud

External Website Monitoring

• gomez.com (now dynatrace)
• yottaa.com
• monitis.com
• pingdom.com
• Ruxit (RUM)
• uptrends.com

Status Page Hosting

• Atlassian statuspage.io
• Statusgator
• cstate

Event Correlation

• SEC - Simple Event Correlation