Monitoring tools are stuck in the 20th century and focused on static and reactive approaches like SNMP and ping checks. The future of monitoring requires a framework and toolbox of dynamic tools that can handle cloud environments, auto-scaling, configuration management and support passive monitoring, anomaly detection, and failure prediction through event data collection and analysis. References are provided for further reading on modernizing monitoring approaches.

1. #monitoringsucks

2. Monitoring is stuck
in the XXth century
Static & reactive
Focused on active checks
IaaS? PaaS? Cloud?
Dynamic config mgmt? Auto-scaling?

3. Monitoring is stuck
in the XXth century
[…] the idea that monitoring
can be a swiss army knife,
and a swiss army knife that’s
mostly SNMP, curl, and
ping, is dead.
http://solarce.org/2012/02/12/why-monitoring-sucks-or-the-future-is-a-toolbox/

4. The future is now
Where are the tools?

5. You are in a maze
of twisty little utilities,
all alike…
https://github.com/monitoringsucks/tool-repos

6. Watch your language!
Event = Metric + Context
Resource is the source of a Metric
Action is the response to a Metric

7. Framework
Collection Filtering?
Transport
Storage
Visualization Alerting Reporting Data mining
Notification
logic

8. Sci-fi ideas
Passive monitoring
Anomaly detection
Failure prediction

9. Some references
http://solarce.org/2012/02/12/why-monitoring-sucks-or-the-future-is-a-toolbox/
https://github.com/monitoringsucks/tool-repos
http://video.fosdem.org/2012/maintracks/janson/Bringing_monitoring_into_the_21st_century.webm