The document outlines a presentation on monitoring systems by Jacob Tomlinson, covering topics such as monitoring technologies, scaling, and key components of a monitoring stack. It includes an agenda with sections on the definition of monitoring systems, an overview of technologies, and considerations for scalability and availability. The presentation also features tools and services like Telegraf, Grafana, and Elasticsearch among others.

1. Monitoring in a
Scalable World
Jacob Tomlinson
Senior Solutions Engineer

2. Agenda
● The Informatics Lab
(10 mins)
● What makes a monitoring system ? (10 mins)
● Overview of technologies (10 mins)
● Making it scale
(10 mins)
● Questions
(10 mins)

4. Demystify
Buzzwords

5. Prototypes
www.informaticslab.co.uk

9. What is a
monitoring
system?

13. Logs vs Telemetry

14. Twelve-Factor App
XI. Logs
Treat logs as event streams
12factor.net

16. Components

17. Collection

18. Storage

19. Aggregation
&
Dashboards

20. Alerting

21. Monitoring
technologies

22. Managed services

25. Telegraf cAdvisor FilebeatTelegraf cAdvisor Filebeat
NGINX
Grafana Kibana
InfluxDB ElasticSearch
Logstash
Telegraf cAdvisor Filebeat
Lab Monitoring Stack v1
Kapacitor

26. Scaling

27. Scalability vs Availability

28. NGINX
Grafana Kibana
InfluxDB ElasticSearch
Logstash
Telegraf cAdvisor Filebeat
Kapacitor

29. NGINX
Grafana Kibana
InfluxDB ElasticSearch
Logstash
Telegraf cAdvisor Filebeat
Kapacitor

30. NGINX
Grafana Kibana
InfluxDB ElasticSearch
Logstash
Telegraf cAdvisor Filebeat
Kapacitor
Telegraf cAdvisor Filebeat
InfluxDB ElasticSearch
Kapacitor
Logstash

31. NGINX
Grafana Kibana
InfluxDB ElasticSearch
Logstash
Telegraf cAdvisor Filebeat
Kapacitor
Telegraf cAdvisor Filebeat
InfluxDB ElasticSearch
Logstash
NGINX
Grafana Kibana

32. NGINXGrafana Kibana
InfluxDB ElasticSearch
Logstash
cAdvisor Filebeat
Lab Monitoring Stack v2
Kapacitor
Telegraf
ELB
PostgreSQL

33. Questions
Jacob Tomlinson
www.informaticslab.co.uk
@_jacobtomlinson
inlb.co/tech-exeter-2016