PromCon 2016 · Berlin
How DigitalOcean ran a public-facing monitoring platform on Prometheus toward multi-datacenter, high-cardinality load.
Themes
- Prometheus as the customer-facing metrics plane
- Sharding, storage pressure, and operational reality past a few thousand machines
- Lessons that fed later work on Vulcan (compatible timeseries pipeline)
Links
- YouTube
- Slides in promcon/slides-2016