This is the deck from a talk I gave alongside Steve Kahn of LogicMonitor at an AWS Dublin Meetup and DevOps World 2015 in London

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SaaS-basedPerformanceMonitoring
forModernITInfrastructure
SteveKahn,CommercialManager,Europe

2. “I was an Ops guy frustrated
with legacy tools and
decided to make something
that monitored all of
modern infrastructure.”
-Steve Francis, Founder,
LogicMonitor
CompanyInfo
Experience:
Mission: To Simplify Technology Management for Humankind
Founded: 2008
Employees: 125
Datacenters: DC, LA & London
Offices: Santa Barbara, CA; Austin, TX; Chengdu, China;
London, UK; Singapore
Funding: VC- Funded

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VisibilityinDevOps
WhytheChoiceofMonitoringSolutionsMatter
MickEngland, November2015

6. 30oddyearsinSystemsOperations
Linuxusersince1993
LogicMonitorusersincearound2009
AWSsince2011
DirectoryofOperationsatTrueFit
Followme…
@mickengland
DevOpsAdvocateinBoston,MA
AboutMe
mickengland
www.devopsadvocates.com
DevOps According to ME

7. Two books by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr
and George Spafford
My Influencers
The Phoenix Project
Published 2013
The Visible Ops Handbook
Published 2005

8. Visibility Matters—Why?

9. Showotherswhatyoudo
Workflow Visibility
Visibility—Type One

10. Workflow Visibility Tools

12. Showthestateofthesystems
Systems Visibility
Visibility—Type Two

13. System Visibility Tools

14. Two Views of Monitoring
Dev QA Prod
Monitoring
Monitoring
Dev QA Prod

15. Auto Scaling

16. Continuous Monitoring

17. Developers,QA,Operations,Business?
EVERYONE
Who Owns Monitoring?

18. Monitoring for DevOps
Monitoringshouldbeaproactivepartofthedevelopmentcycle
EstablishingBaselines
Dev and Ops need to work together to establish what is normal.
How is the code performing? What is our resource utilization?
Monitorallenvironments,notjustprod
MetricsDrivenTesting
Automated testing must take metrics into account. If a code
checkin has a negative impact on the baseline — break the build!

19. Hosted SaaS Solutions
-Spend your time fixing problems
not implementing monitoring
Low performance overhead
-Avoid agent based solutions
Selecting Good Monitoring Solutions
Automated Discovery
-Monitor what you don’t
know about, not just what
you do
Clear Dashboards
-Enable people to see what
they need quickly

20. New AWS Dashboards in LogicMonitor

21. Showing ELB usage in LogicMonitor

22. Agentless Model
Monitors via snmpd, http,
jmx, sql, etc.,
No incoming connections
from LM cloud
Collectors talk outbound
over https
Why I chose LogicMonitor
Good API/Automation
Close integration with tools
such as Puppet. Good API
for scripted operations.
Custom Dashboards
Enable people to see what
they need quickly
Hybrid Solution
New AWS solutions enable
monitoring of cloud or data
center

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