Brian Brazil

Interview with ShuttleCloud

ShuttleCloud, a company that facilitates email and contact data importing for providers like Google and Comcast, initially relied on a fragmented monitoring system using scripts, P…

Interview with ShowMax

ShowMax, a video-on-demand service operating in 65 countries, struggled with the scalability and stability of their previous monitoring systems (Graphite and OpenTSDB). They transi…

Interview with Life360

Life360, a family connection app handling massive traffic (700k requests/minute), moved to Prometheus from a fragmented monitoring system (Copperegg, Graphite, Sensu, Cloudwatch) d…

Practical Anomaly Detection

This article argues that perfectly detecting anomalies in complex systems is impossible, but practical anomaly detection *is* achievable through custom rules built with tools like …

Prometheus Monitoring Spreads through the Internet

This article highlights the growing adoption of Prometheus, a monitoring system, since the release of version 0.10.0. It compiles a list of numerous online resources – blog posts, …