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Do You Really Know Your Response Times?
With the recent surge in highly available microsevervices with high incoming traffic, it is becoming more and more important to know how your service is performing right now and to be able to diagnose issues in production quickly. It took a while for us to understand how to produce meaningful graphs and alerts that help us truly understand our application performance.
We initially found that most developers did not understand what they were measuring and that many of the graphs caused confusion. In this talk I show how we collect application performance metrics at Sky.
I focus on the use of histogram metrics to monitor response times, explain how reservoir sampling can help and show the trade-offs among reservoir types. Finally I illustrate, with real-world examples, some good and bad practices when monitoring response times.
Speaker
Daniel Rolls
Collecting and Interpreting Large-Scale Data Collected @SkyUK
Daniel Rolls is a senior developer at Sky where he is responsible for building web services for over the top delivery of video streams. Prior to joining Sky Daniel did a PhD in Computer Science and worked for various organisations including Xerox and The University of Hertfordshire. Daniel...
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Location
Whittle, 3rd flr.
Track
Observability Done Right: Automating Insight & Software Telemetry
Topics
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