Insight Engineering: An Introduction to Modern Monitoring and Alerting
LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
Joseph Ruscio, CTO of Librato
Joseph Ruscio, CTO of Librato
Joseph Ruscio is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Librato. He's responsible for the company's technical strategy, product architecture, and hacks on all levels of their vision for the future of monitoring. Joe has 15 years of experience developing distributed systems in startups, academia, and the telecommunications industry and he holds a Masters in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. In his spare time he enjoys snowboarding and obsessing over the details of brewing both coffee and beer. He loves graphs.
author = {Joseph Ruscio},
title = {Insight Engineering: An Introduction to Modern Monitoring and Alerting},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
An in-depth tutorial on the cutting-edge monitoring and alerting systems/practices employed by the best operations teams to gain deep insights into the performance characteristics of their infrastructures.
Practitioners responsible for building, operating, or maintaining production systems. Anyone interested in using metrics to reduce the latency in identifying emergent issues, determine their cause, and validate remediation.
A new understanding of how modern teams are applying real-time metrics to drive almost all aspects of their work. Best practices in data collection, visualization, and alerting. Knowledge of common anti-patterns and how to avoid them.
- The goals of a cutting-edge monitoring infrastructure and the requirements they impart.
- The different patterns used to implement these capabilities with real-world examples and the different trade-offs they entail.
- Data Visualization
- Alert Design & Management
