Maksim Vazhenin | InfluxDB for Storage System Monitoring | InfluxDays EMEA 2021

Maksim Vazhenin [Dell Technologies] | InfluxDB for Storage System Monitoring | InfluxDays EMEA 2021 This talk tells the story of how Dell switched its internal monitoring system shipped with Dell EMC ECS Enterprise Object Storage from a home-grown monitoring system to InfluxDB-based stack. The session will cover the following topics: - Lessons learned on completely changing the monitoring stack on the shipped system while doing continuous releases - Building a separate service running Flux language which connects to InfluxDB instances - Running multiple InfluxDB instances for HA Using Flux language for Grafana dashboards and alerting rules - How to control metrics ingest rate and cardinality to have predictable resource consumption - Shipping InfluxDB with storage system for internal monitoring and running InfluxDB with low memory constraints (3Gb)