Short thread here summing up monitoring and observability news this past week. Sponsored by... nobody #monitoring#observability#sre 1/7
The @Monitorama Baltimore speaker lineup has been released. Looks like a good lineup, several monitoring vendor experts speaking. monitorama.com/2019/baltimore… 2/7
Monitoring company @signalfx acquired by @splunk for $1B. With $178M in VC funding, an exit multiplier of ~5.6 aligns with desired PE exits of 5x, but just over the VC funding multiplier criteria of 5.4. Desirable VC exits are 10x. splunk.com/en_us/newsroom… 3/7
PostgreSQL based @TimescaleDB announced their distributed solution based on chunks. A CP distributed TSDB solution, should be interesting
to see how it pans out. blog.timescale.com/blog/building-… 5/6
High scale TSDB @IRONdb released 0.17.3, featuring performance improvements and more Prometheus compatibility features irondb.io/docs/changelog… 6/6
It has generated some discussion, but folks I know say takeaways aren't obvious. I've done Observability (TM) for 10 years, here are mine. 1/9
CNCF published a methodology on how they did this, but they basically asked different companies to classify the observability (and monitoring!) technologies they are using into Adopt, Trial, Assess. radar.cncf.io/how-it-works
Now here's the interesting part: 2/9
Those are current tense verbs and read more like recommendations, when they really shouldn't be. This was a radar, not a prescription (I'm here to give you the prescription ;) It would have been better if they used "Adopted", "Trialed", "Assessed" to be more precise. 3/9
Leading off, @IRONdb 0.19.5 was released with some wicked tag indexing and searching optimizations. Guessing this is what @postwait tweeted about hacking on earlier this week. docs.circonus.com/irondb/release…
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.@PrometheusIO 2.19.0 is out. Looks like some performance optimizations.
It's Friday and the Memorial Day weekend forecast is looking like warm temperatures. That means it is time for another Five Hot Takes on monitoring and observability.
Leading off, an analysis on the Gartner 2020 APM Magic Quadrant. There's not much that's magical about APM (or Gartner reports for that matter), but this report is worth a read tunemon.com/analyzing-the-… 2/6
The Open Observability conference is May 27th. There's about half a dozen speakers already, and the CFP is open until May 11th openobservability.io 3/6
Reading on Twitter that a lot of DevRel folks are concerned about conference cancellations. I was in that role previously for a highly technical product. Speaking and talking to folks at the booth is only part of the game. 1/
If the conf was highly aligned with your product niche, this can be a concern for your outreach efforts. But it also represents an opportunity. Attendees already know they want to see your talk and have probably followed you on Twitter. 2/
So give it starting in blog form. Not all at once though, make it like a TV show that has cliffhangers. You already have the narrative, you just need to create episodes with subplots. People will read it, trust me (folks at confs said they read my posts) 3/