Prometheus and OpenMetrics, with Richard Hartmann

Jan 22, 2019

Richard Hartmann is a member of the Prometheus Team and the founder of the OpenMetrics project, which aims to replace SNMP with a modern format for transmitting metrics. He joins your hosts to discuss both projects, and how Cloud Native technology can improve the datacenter.

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Chatter of the week

• Lego collecting delivers huge and uncorrelated market returns

News of the week

• Knative 0.3 released
• Service Mesh Day; March 28-29, San Francisco
• FoundationDB Record Layer
• Tumblr open sources Kubernetes tools
• gVisor presentation by Adin Scannel
• Aleksa Sarai on tar in oci
• Detect overspending by measuring idle Kubernetes resources
  • Karl Stoney’s post on managing costs on Kubernetes
• SQL Server on GKE and AlwaysOn Availability Groups
• Namely’s Crash Course in Running Istio
• Kubernetes failure stories
  • Zalando
  • Target
• 9 security best practices
• Google remains the top contributor to CNCF projects, even if you were to remove Kubernetes!

Links from the interview

• Space.net
  • Swiss Army Chainsaw
• Prometheus
  • Built by ex-Googlers at Soundcloud
  • Better than MRTG and rrdtool
  • Cortex, Thanos, InfluxData for persisting Prometheus data long-term
• Manage multiple DCs
• Grafana for visualising data
  • Variables for templating
• PromQL
• OpenMetrics
  • A new Lingua Franca for monitoring and tracing that isn’t SNMP
    • Export SNMP to Prometheus format
  • Transforming the Prometheus Exposition Format into a Global Standard; Richard’s PromCon talk
  • End goal: write an RFC
  • GitHub repo
  • Prometheus 2.5 has experimental OpenMetrics support
• QUIC becomes HTTP/3
• Get involved with the Prometheus community
• Richard Hartmann on Twitter