A lot of you folks have seen the @CloudNativeFdn recent End User Technology Radar that was recently published - radar.cncf.io/2020-09-observ…

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

It's Friday the 13th, uh I mean the 12th. That means it's time again for Five Hot Takes in Monitoring and Observability.

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1/6 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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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.

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1/6 Leading off, @davidgsIoT is now leading up Developer Advocacy at time series db vendor @QuestDb. Congrats David!

https://twitter.com/davidgsIoT/status/1263820105714208770

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.@monkchips firing off his entertaining rageops rants at #gitopsdays The HIPPO - HIghest Paid PersOn in the room says what should be built

It's a warm Friday and most of us are sheltering in place, so it's time for five hot takes on this week's monitoring and observability news 1/6

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hashtag #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

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/

.@gphat getting ready to send it with "No-Nonsense Observability Improvement" #kubecon #observability @gphat "We are not going to define Observability today" 👍

Watch. This. Talk.

https://twitter.com/rileyberton/status/1190262551369723905

The closest I've gotten with a Prometheus style bin structure was 43 bins. Relative errors are near 10% worst case, but absolute errors acceptable. For a large app though, any more bins with separate time series means cardinality is too high.

Use HDR if you can.

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

Just went through an IT obstacle course buying Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer original show on iTunes. It's on Youtube but doesn't render correctly on AppleTV (surprise?)
1/4 It costs $9.99 on the Apple store. Had to enter my iTunes password over the Siri remote. Clicked through the letters and scrolled like a late 90's cellphone text message since the Siri voice input didn't work.
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.@QuinnyPig on death of an Enterprise software salesman #NewOpsDays @QuinnyPig Up and to the right #NewOpsDays