“Observability”: Just a Fancy Word for “Monitoring”? A Journey From What to Why
Learn about metrics abstraction, using logs as evidence in root cause investigation, and ways to observe transactions through your infrastructure.
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Too often, monitoring is a never-ending arms race. We keep adding more monitoring in response to new problems, but the cycle never seems to end. Humans, (the business), drive new changes, which cause new problems, and need more, new monitoring. And that’s where real, useful observability may be able to help finally identify root cause and break the cycle of reactive monitoring for novel issues.
In this session, Dan Kuebrich, Director of Engineering for SolarWinds Cloud, and Head Geek™ Patrick Hubbard sort through the hype surrounding observability to distill a useful set of pragmatic approaches to combine your metrics, logs, and even traces to make your operations life easier. You’ll learn about metrics abstraction, how to use logs as evidence in root cause investigation, and ways to observe transactions end-to-end as they travel through all elements of your infrastructure.
In this session, Dan Kuebrich, Director of Engineering for SolarWinds Cloud, and Head Geek™ Patrick Hubbard sort through the hype surrounding observability to distill a useful set of pragmatic approaches to combine your metrics, logs, and even traces to make your operations life easier. You’ll learn about metrics abstraction, how to use logs as evidence in root cause investigation, and ways to observe transactions end-to-end as they travel through all elements of your infrastructure.
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Patrick Hubbard | SolarWinds Head Geek
Patrick has over 20 years of hands-on experience spanning software development, operations, applications, networks, virtualization, cloud, and more. His passion is delivering services that delight, not just satisfy users.
Patrick has over 20 years of hands-on experience spanning software development, operations, applications, networks, virtualization, cloud, and more. His passion is delivering services that delight, not just satisfy users.
Dan Kuebrich | SolarWinds Director of Engineering
Currently working on application and infrastructure monitoring in the SolarWinds Cloud product suite, Dan has focused on application performance monitoring as CTO of AppNeta and co-founder of Tracelytics (acquired by AppNeta in 2012).
Currently working on application and infrastructure monitoring in the SolarWinds Cloud product suite, Dan has focused on application performance monitoring as CTO of AppNeta and co-founder of Tracelytics (acquired by AppNeta in 2012).
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