Practical Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus - Michael Friedrich, GitLab

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Practical Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus - Michael Friedrich, GitLab
Monitoring for microservices and distributed workloads isn’t an easy task. Imagine that you become responsible after years of traditional service monitoring. You start your research - Kubernetes as a container orchestrator already is a complex ecosystem to understand. Join this talk for a journey on the first steps, best practices with Prometheus, Grafana and the Prometheus Operator. The adventure does not stop here: Use client libraries to instrument your own application with metrics, deploy it to Kubernetes and what now? Explore how service discovery, long term storage with Thanos/Cortex and alerting help complete cloud native monitoring. It’s also an iterative process, with new workloads, changes, and a constant work in progress. This talk will help prepare you for cold winters and hot summers, silencing alerts before they exist. Spoiler: The end will peek into observability with logs, traces and SLOs, and show monitoring use cases on GitLab.com SaaS.

[@sethalump]

Yeah this was solid and well laid out.

[@justinmillertech]

Amazing and timely presentation, thank you very much. Also thanks for posting workshop link. I plan to run through it

[@gdevelek]

A very convoluted and confusing video. So many tools, no clear path on what to do.

[@dnsmichi]

Sorry that you find it confusing, and thanks for your feedback. A short talk might not be enough to explain everything with regards to Kubernetes Monitoring. I had created a longer workshop with exercises and solutions to learn async, maybe this helps: about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relations/developer-evangelism/projects/#practical-kubernetes-monitoring-with-prometheus