Monitoring Evolution at Scale
summary
A 13-year case study of evolving IT monitoring for a global company (20k+ employees) that migrated from a proprietary monitoring tool to a stack of open-source solutions. It describes operational challenges and tooling changes, and explains how a highly distributed, automated Icinga 2-based monitoring system with applied workflows earned trust from SEC and NOC operators and provided unified, reliable monitoring for daily sysadmin processes.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to monitoring
- 6:05Early career and open source
- 12:30Nagios and monitoring tools
- 17:33Data center management
- 22:02Challenges and solutions
- 27:17Conclusion and Q&A
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