We're slowly starting to see Configuration Management become a default rather than an exception. Increasingly large numbers of organizations see CM as a requirement and not an extra. Sadly we don't see this maturity reflected in the monitoring world. Change has been slow, we're often not monitoring the right things or the right places and environments remain heavily manual. So why hasn't monitoring advanced at the same pace as CM? What's different about it? More importantly, what can we do about it?

1. Why Monitoring Sucks
And what Configuration Management can
do about it
James Turnbull
@kartar
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2. Who
• VP of Engineering at Kickstarter
• Advisor at Docker
• Open source chap
• Funny accent
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3. The Docker Book
www.dockerbook.com
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4. The Art of Monitoring
www.artofmonitoring.com
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5. Who are you folks?
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6. What's this all about?
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7. Monitoring Sucks
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8. It fucking does and I
can prove it.
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9. Data. We have data.
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10. Step out of the
bubble
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11. The wrong folks
monitor
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12. Only 9% of
developers do
monitoring
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13. We monitor the
wrong things.
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14. 68% of folks don't
monitor business
logic
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15. For the wrong reasons
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16. 90% have
unmonitored failures
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17. 80% have un-
actioned alerts
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18. 33% monitor
reactively
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19. Our tools don't scale
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20. They're centralized
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21. And not self-service
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22. So why?
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23. Well ... lots of
"maybe"
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24. Horses hate talking
about unicorns
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25. A few unicorns do not
make horses magic
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26. Change is slow
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27. ROI isn't as obvious
Investment is expensive
Don't know what you don't know
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28. But there is hope
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29. Configuration
Management as
default
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30. 73% of y'all use it
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31. Aren't y'all
awesome?
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32. How can we take
advantage of this?
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33. Blessed are the tool
makers
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34. Events
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35. APIs and endpoints
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36. Create monitoring
abstractions
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37. Build monitoring
patterns into content
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38. Set the quality bar to
include monitoring
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39. Testing compliments
monitoring
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40. Make service
discovery and
registration a first
class citizen
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41. Build tools that
enable self-service
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42. Questions?
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