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Monitoring Cloud Native applications with Prometheus
Monitoring containerised applications creates a new set of challenges that traditional monitoring systems struggle with. In this talk, Aaron from Weaveworks will explore how we can use Prometheus, along with its integrations with Kubernetes and other open-source components, to observe services effectively and help extinguish fires when they occur. Using anecdotes from real product incidents, this talk will cover bringing together metrics from various exporters, creating alerts to proactively notify you of common issues and using monitoring to drive your infrastructure decisions.
Speaker
Aaron Kirkbride
Software Engineer @Weaveworks
Aaron is an software engineer at Weaveworks. He enjoys working across the stack, from DevOps to UIs, to create products which help developers like himself deploy and monitor their applications running on Kubernetes. Prior to this, he’s worked at other London-based startups including YPlan and...
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Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
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