Ask Austin: Putting The IR into ObseRvabIlity

• upptime

  48 14,776 10.0 Markdown

  ⬆️ GitHub Actions uptime monitor & status page by @AnandChowdhary

  

While tools such as Prometheus and Upptime will let you monitor, alert, and communicate incidents to your users, there's a lot more than just tracking metrics and pinging your page to really understand your system. The cost of stitching together your own bespoke solution in terms of time alone can be weeks or months, which can strain already over-extended engineers. Moreover, wouldn't you rather be working on things that provide value to your end-users rather than spinning up Grafana again?

• prometheus

  383 52,933 9.9 Go

  The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

  

While tools such as Prometheus and Upptime will let you monitor, alert, and communicate incidents to your users, there's a lot more than just tracking metrics and pinging your page to really understand your system. The cost of stitching together your own bespoke solution in terms of time alone can be weeks or months, which can strain already over-extended engineers. Moreover, wouldn't you rather be working on things that provide value to your end-users rather than spinning up Grafana again?

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• opentelemetry-go

  127 4,804 9.7 Go

  OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK

  

Monitoring and observability should be 'day zero' problems. Ensure that every new feature or service has appropriate tracing, metrics, and logging telemetry being output and captured through OpenTelemetry tools, and test these telemetry outputs as part of your CI/CD process.

• Grafana

  380 60,503 10.0 TypeScript

  The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

  

While tools such as Prometheus and Upptime will let you monitor, alert, and communicate incidents to your users, there's a lot more than just tracking metrics and pinging your page to really understand your system. The cost of stitching together your own bespoke solution in terms of time alone can be weeks or months, which can strain already over-extended engineers. Moreover, wouldn't you rather be working on things that provide value to your end-users rather than spinning up Grafana again?

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