Prometheus and service monitoring (Changelog Interviews #168)

Julius Volz from SoundCloud joined the show to talk about Prometheus, an open-source service monitoring system written in Go.

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Show Notes:

• Julius Volz (@juliusvolz) on Twitter
• Julius Volz (@juliusv) on GitHub
• Prometheus Homepage
• Prometheus on GitHub
• Prometheus Community
• Prometheus Google Group
• What is Prometheus?
• Monitoring at SoundCloud with Prometheus
• Push vs Pull for Monitoring | Big Data for Travel – Boxever
• Icinga | Open Source Monitoring
• Nagios - The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
• The Changelog #167: Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS with Tobi Knaup
• The Changelog #163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon
• Björn Rabenstein (@beorn7) on GitHub
• John Carmack (Wikipedia)
• Rob Pike (Wikipedia)
• Dmitry Vyukov (@dvyukov) on Twitter
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• Changelog Nightly

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