Prometheus and OpenMetrics, with Richard Hartmann

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. No soup for you! Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod 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