Monitoring and Metrics and Logging: Oh My!

Wednesday, 8:30 AM

Visibility is one of the primary characteristics of applications that aren’t just coded well, but run well in production. We need visibility to understand:

  • how our system performs
  • how our system misbehaves
  • how our system fails
  • how our users interact with our system
  • what’s providing value to users and what’s not
  • and more!

In this talk we’ll look at the three disciplines of monitoring, metrics, and logging, and see how properly used, they can dramatically increase our system’s inherent visibility.

Topics will include:

  • what metrics should we collect?
  • how should we expose those metrics?
  • can frameworks help?
  • what should we monitor?
  • monitoring components vs. systems
  • building dashboards
  • the art of logging
  • log aggregation and analysis
  • tools, tools, tools, tools!

About Matt Stine

Matt Stine

Matt is a technical product manager at Pivotal. He is a 15 year veteran of the enterprise IT industry, with experience spanning numerous business domains. He is the author of recently published Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures from O’Reilly, available as a free e-book download.

Matt is obsessed with the idea that enterprise IT “doesn’t have to suck,” and spends much of his time thinking about lean/agile software development methodologies, DevOps, architectural principles/patterns/practices, and programming paradigms, in an attempt to find the perfect storm of techniques that will allow corporate IT departments to not only function like startup companies, but also create software that delights users while maintaining a high degree of conceptual integrity. His current focus is driving Pivotal’s solutions around supporting microservices architectures with Cloud Foundry and Spring.

Matt has spoken at conferences ranging from JavaOne to OSCON to YOW!, is a five-year member of the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, and serves as Technical Editor of NFJS the Magazine. Matt is also the founder and past president of the Memphis Java User Group.

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