Bringing situational awareness to observability with Grafana and Prometheus
Thursday, May 8
4:40 PM
10 mins
Main Stage
About this session
When it comes to monitoring a large network of touchscreen multimedia kiosks across the U.S., it often turns out that the most useful leading indicators are more qualitative than technical: Does the screen content look stuck or blank?
Is the touchscreen too noisy?
Did we forget to install something?
In this lightning talk, Orange Barrel Media Engineering Manager Christoph Roedig will explore how to make observability tools more helpful in real-world scenarios where technical system metrics such as CPU, RAM, and disk on their own don’t accurately show what’s important.
Sometimes it’s about finding just the right query to turn some technical data into an indicator. In other cases, you have to invent your own measurement entirely. Chris will share examples of creative uses of Prometheus Node Exporter, PromQL, and Grafana query transformations to bridge observability and situational awareness.
