A presentation at NDC Porto in in Porto, Portugal by Jessica White
A Practical Guide to Dashboarding Jessica White Software Engineer
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto What Is A Dashboard & Why Should I Care?
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@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Metrics VS Diagnostics ● High level view ● For assessing a system and spotting issues ● Kept in present view ● Log analytics ● For tracing and debugging ● Used when fixing issues
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@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Services
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@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Four Golden Signals - Google Traffic Error Latency Saturation
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Four Golden Signals - Google Traffic
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Four Golden Signals - Google Error
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Four Golden Signals - Google Latency
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Four Golden Signals - Google Saturation
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Four Golden Signals - Google Saturation
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Four Golden Signals - Google Saturation
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Four Golden Signals - Google Saturation
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto R.E.D Rate Error Duration
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto R.E.D Rate
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto R.E.D Error
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto R.E.D Duration
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Rate Error Duration Traffic Error Latency Saturation
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Response API Includes calls to the server
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@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Response API Includes calls to the server
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Response API REQUEST Includes calls to the server RESPONSE SERVER
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto WHISPER CARBON SERVER
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto WHISPER CARBON SERVER
Demo
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Task definition includes: ● Docker image ● Port mappings ● Environment variables ● Postgres endpoint ● Graphite address
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Task definition includes: ● Docker image ● Port mappings ● Environment variables ● Postgres endpoint ● Graphite address Postgres Whisper Config
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Do these metrics help you in real life?
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@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Where Can I Learn More?
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto These slides and resources will be made available on my be.notist page after this session: https://noti.st/jesspwhite The link to which will be shared on Twitter @JessPWhite
@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Tom Wilkie -The Red Method: How To Instrument Your Services ● Talk from Influx Days ● Slides From GrafanaCon EU Brendan Greg -The USE Method ● Article on USE Method Google SRE Book ● Book available online ● Other google SRE resources Extra ● I also occasionally blog
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@JessPWhite #NDCPorto Thank you for listening
Dashboarding, also known as visualisation, is a difficult thing to do. First, there is a vast choice of tooling and setup. Then, figuring out what information should be displayed, where and why can be confusing.
Together we will journey through a practical tour of dashboarding. Focusing on metrics, we will go through some of the common patterns for services and API’s that can ensure your visualisations and dashboards are useful. Finally, I will demonstrate building a dashboard using these patterns using StatsD, Graphite, and Grafana.
This will be a whirlwind tour from start to finish on how to get started making useful development dashboards.
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
The demo demonstrated in the talk that you can go through yourself.
The playlist from the beginning of the session
In the "Monitoring Distributed Systems" Chapter of the Google SRE book
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