Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p>It’s all about open source monitoring this week, as Prometheus Co-Founder <a href="https://twitter.com/juliusvolz">Julius Volz</a>, joins your co-hosts <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> to talk all about <a href="https://prometheus.io/">Prometheus</a>. Where it came from, why it was built and why you should use it.</p> <h5 id="about-julius-volz">About Julius Volz</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/juliusvolz">Julius</a> co-founded the Prometheus monitoring system and lead the project to success at SoundCloud and beyond. He now focuses on growing the Prometheus community and is the main organizer of PromCon, the first conference around Prometheus. In a previous life, Julius was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>New Singapore GCP region – open now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-cloud-platform-comes-to-singapore"> blog</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/">locations</a></li> <li>Training an object detector using Cloud Machine Learning Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/06/training-an-object-detector-using-cloud-machine-learning-engine"> blog</a></li> <li>Preparing a Container Engine Environment for Production <a href="https://cloud.google.com/solutions/prep-container-engine-for-prod"> solution</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Prometheus <a href="https://prometheus.io/">homepage</a> <a href="https://github.com/prometheus">github</a></li> <li>Prometheus Overview <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxcEzu62jk">youtube</a> <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/media/">media</a></li> <li>Prometheus Query Language <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/querying/basics/">docs</a></li> <li>Grafana <a href="https://grafana.com/">homepage</a> <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/visualization/grafana/">docs</a></li> <li>Prometheus Client Libraries <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/">docs</a></li> <li>Installing Prometheus on Kubernetes <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/stable/prometheus"> helm</a> <a href="https://coreos.com/blog/the-prometheus-operator.html">operator</a></li> <li>Cortex, a Open source, horizontally scalable Prometheus as a service <a href="https://github.com/weaveworks/cortex">github</a></li> <li>Prometheus Federation <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/federation/">docs</a></li> <li>Prometheus Conference, PromCon 2017 <a href="https://promcon.io/2017-munich/">site</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://prometheus.io/"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/prometheus.png" style="margin: auto;" /></a></div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>I didn’t put enough log statements in my application, and now things are broken. Help!?</p> <ul> <li>Using Debug Logpoints <a href="https://cloud.google.com/debugger/docs/logpoints">docs</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9_kMqWasWk">youtube</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Francesc just released a new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQeAKSJH4vw">#justforfunc episode</a> where he builds a Twitter bot that runs for free on GCP.</p> <p>He will be running a workshop at <a href="https://qconnewyork.com/">QCon New York</a> on Go tooling based on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBjoTxosSys">this video</a>, after that he’ll be at GopherCon in Denver!</p> <p>Mark will be speaking at <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/summit-NewYork-2017.html">Google Cloud Summit, New York</a> in July.</p>
