Abstract

This workshop aims to help attendees in getting familiar with monitoring tools so that the focus can be extended to measuring application performance and business outcomes rather than just stock concerns like disk, CPU and memory.

In this workshop, we would be setting up tools to collect metrics and visualizing them, using dashboards. While making use of annotation and alerts, we will learn to detect, diagnose and resolve faults.

Target Audience

• Beginners to Monitoring tools

• Newbies to handling infrastructure

• Fast growing Start-ups looking to make better use of their infrastructure

Approach

The first hour, we’ll discuss about basics of monitoring and its benefits. Then we will get our hands dirty with setting up monitoring tools.

Outline

1. Benefits of monitoring
2. Setup of monitoring tools
3. Sending server metrics like Memory, CPU, Disk & Network
4. Show sample monitoring dashboards

Pre-requisites

• Participants should be comfortable with Unix system
• Participants should be familiar with docker