Abraham Ingersoll runs Solutions Engineering for Gravitational, the makers of a Kubernetes snapshot distribution called Gravity and a popular open source ssh+kubectl cert and bastion tool called Teleport. He first used rrdtool (and then graphite) to count paid clicks at Bizrate/Shopzilla, graduated to AppDynamics+OpenTSDB at Betfair (Fanduel) in the United Kingdom and then witnessed the rollout of “federated” Prometheus while at Ticketmaster. When not focused on sleep reliability engineering vs non-abstract large system design, Abe is a connoisseur of 3-phase power tools and sourdough starter.

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Curse of Cardinality: History and Evolution of Monitoring at Scale

Let’s have fun digging into observability tooling from simple red-yellow-green active checks to the latest measure-everything cloud native bleeding edge technologies. While ignoring our pagers, we will dashboard through the history and evolution of monitoring within heterogeneous large-scale environments. We will showcase typical end-users and the tooling anti-patterns they beget, and use stories of real outages to drill into interesting decisions made by the larger open source and vendor community in this ever-expanding collision of technology with engineer sleep patterns.

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