Introducing Reliability Toolkit: Easy-to-Use Monitoring and Alerting
summary
A team of eight SREs supports 1,700 DevOps engineers by shipping a preconfigured monitoring stack called the Reliability Toolkit that uses Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, an NGINX log aggregator, Mattermost and SMS via MessageBird. They provision templated dashboards and alerts, deploy via Ansible with five-machine environments (test/acceptance/production), and add a Java-based model builder that exposes expected-traffic metrics for anomaly alerts. They cite a 2017 baseline of ~69 minutes average until alert delivery, report faster detection and clear adoption gains through workshops and client libraries.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 1:41What do we work on with whom, how and why?
- 3:56Why did we develop the Reliability Toolkit?
- 7:07What's in the Reliability Toolkit?
- 8:45How does the Reliability Toolkit work?
- 14:10Increasing and improving usage of Reliability Toolkit
- 28:54How does Model Builder work?
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