Observability Observed
A presentation at DevOpsDays Baltimore 2019 in in Baltimore, MD, USA by fen aldrich
OBSERVABILITY OBSERVED in five minutes or less 1 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
Isn’t this just monitoring with better SEO? - you 2 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
You’re not wrong… 3 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
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EVERYTHING IS just a little bit broken 6 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
Shift Right: HOW DO YOU DELIVER VALUE? 7 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
SERVICE HEALTH NOT SYSTEM HEALTH 8 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
Observability (O11Y) A system is observable when you can ask arbitrary questions about it and receive meaningful answers without having to resort to writing new code or command line tools. It lets you discover unknown-unknowns and debug in production. 9 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
THREE PILLARS OF O11Y 1. Metrics 2. Logs 3. APM 10 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
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Tools NOT PILLARS 12 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
One-in-a-million chances crop up nine times out of ten. - Sir Terry Pratchett 13 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
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TEST IN PRODUCTION With Feature Flags and Canary Deploys 16 — @crayzeigh — @elastic !
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She doesn’t care whether or not [the datacenter is literally on fire], just as long as the ship’s coming in. -Cake, Italian Leather Sofa Lightly interpreted 19 — @crayzeigh — @elastic !
ARE YOU CREATING VALUE? 20 — @crayzeigh — @elastic
In DevOps, especially on the Ops side of the house, it seems you can’t outrun this Observability term, but what is it? Monitoring with a new name? A marketing gimmick for new infrastructure tools? Something about dynamic linear systems? And why should I care? And if I do care, how do I get started?
In 5 minutes or less we’ll introduce what Observability is, convince you to care, and give you some starting points and guidelines to think about as you get started with a slide reserved for “where to go from here”. Or for further discussion: let’s Open Space about that.
