SE-Radio Episode 270: Brian Brazil on Prometheus Monitoring

Jeff Meyerson talks with Brian Brazil about monitoring with
Prometheus, an open source tool for monitoring distributed
applications. Brian is the founder of Robust Perception, a
company offering Prometheus engineering and consulting. The high
level goal of Prometheus is to allow developers to focus on
services rather than individual instances of a given service.
Prometheus is based off of the Borgmon monitoring tool, widely
used at Google, where Brian previously worked. Jeff and Brian
discuss the tradeoffs of choosing not to replicate our monitoring
data. In some situations, the monitoring system will lose data
because of this decision. Other topics that are discussed are
distributed consensus tools, integrations with Prometheus, and
the broader topic of monitoring itself.