DevOpsCon 2016: Interview Gianluca Arbezzano

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Claims a working monitoring stack built from InfluxDB Telegraf Grafana and Kapacitor that scales in highly dynamic cloud and microservice environments, and argues Prometheus is a good alternative for infrastructure monitoring. Describes installing lightweight agents on ephemeral servers, piping time series into dashboards and alerts, and treating the stack like a Google Analytics for infrastructure. Says success depends on horizontal skills plus cloud provider knowledge and toolchain pieces like Terraform Consul and Docker.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:28How to build a monitoring system
3. 1:46Benefits of Influx
4. 2:38DevOps Culture
5. 3:47The key to DevOps
6. 5:08Gaps in DevOps

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