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What Metrics Do You Collect?
Manage episode 425981574 series 45278
One of the hot terms in software these days is observability. There are a few definitions (Splunk, RadixWeb), but essentially this is the insight into how your software runs and performs using metrics, logs, traces, etc. In DevOps, we do this with an eye toward improving performance and identifying the root cause of issues. The focus is slightly different from monitoring, where we often focus more on resources and health. We need both, but often in trying to improve software and the behavior for users, developers need observability. Infrastructure people responding to acute issues and looking to ensure we have the capacity, availability, and other x-bilities, that need monitoring.
Today I'm wondering if you collect a variety of types of metrics for your software that might tell you how your system is running. What things are important to you in order to better serve your clients? If you're a DBA/sysadmin, what is important to you? If you are a developer, are there different types of data you want?
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297 episodes
Manage episode 425981574 series 45278
One of the hot terms in software these days is observability. There are a few definitions (Splunk, RadixWeb), but essentially this is the insight into how your software runs and performs using metrics, logs, traces, etc. In DevOps, we do this with an eye toward improving performance and identifying the root cause of issues. The focus is slightly different from monitoring, where we often focus more on resources and health. We need both, but often in trying to improve software and the behavior for users, developers need observability. Infrastructure people responding to acute issues and looking to ensure we have the capacity, availability, and other x-bilities, that need monitoring.
Today I'm wondering if you collect a variety of types of metrics for your software that might tell you how your system is running. What things are important to you in order to better serve your clients? If you're a DBA/sysadmin, what is important to you? If you are a developer, are there different types of data you want?
Read the rest of What Metrics Do You Collect?
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