Hynek Schlawack: “Get Instrumented: How Prometheus Can Unify Your Metrics“

Hynek Schlawack / Germany. Berlin/CPython & Twisted core dev. PSF member. FOSS mercenary. Head of infrastructure and board representative at Variomedia. Get Instrumented: How Prometheus Can Unify Your Metrics (eng) Metrics are highly superior to logging in regards of understanding the past, presence, and future of your applications and systems. They are cheap to gather (just increment a number!) but setting up a metrics system to collect and store them is a major task. You may have heard of statsd, Rieman