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Re: The Art of Monitoring

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post #16

The monitoring considered in the OP is for server farms and networks where the main challenges are rates of false alarms and rates of missed detections. The challenge is to find means of monitoring that will permit selecting the rate of false alarms are willing to tolerate and, then, for that rate, get the lowest rate possible for missed detections. Thus, would like to use the Neyman-Pearson result. Usually, however,…

It's a spectrum to me. We're way behind the curve on monitoring and the "state of the art" in, anywhere but cutting edge shops, is woeful. I'd love folks to be able to anomaly detection easily and simply but the technology and tools aren't quite there yet. I am just hoping to get folks to advance their environments a little way forward.

Yes, the situation is horrible. I'm reluctant to believe that the "cutting edge shops" are doing very well.

For good "tools", I have a good paper on the subject, but from all I can see there is essentially no interest. People would prefer not to be bothered. The attitude seems to be, if there is a problem, then we will detect it, eventually if not soon, and then we will fix it.

Re: The Art of Monitoring

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Just bought the book, and I didn't even realize it was James Turnbull, that guy is extremely advanced in monitoring. I've seen many of his talks online, and no one speaks about monitoring in a more rational way that I've seen.

This is Hacker News at it's best in my view.

Re: The Art of Monitoring

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Another thought. Two really: - Lead us into more about the why before showing the price. Really tell the story of the pain that so many of us can identify with. - Use a standard three teir pricing box style, with the values of each above the price. Something like: https://planscope.io/pricing/

Thanks - I added a pricing panel.

Re: The Art of Monitoring

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If you haven't read one of the authors book's before (he's released titles on both Logstash and Docker.), he puts out really quality material and he seems to update them when new releases of the subject come out. This looks like another great release. Kudos James.

Seconded. My satisfaction with the Docker book has had me on the edge of my seat for this book since I first saw the "coming soon" message.

Re: The Art of Monitoring

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If you haven't read one of the authors book's before (he's released titles on both Logstash and Docker.), he puts out really quality material and he seems to update them when new releases of the subject come out. This looks like another great release. Kudos James.

Agreed. I have and used his books on Puppet, and they are awesome.

Re: The Art of Monitoring

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Another thought. Two really: - Lead us into more about the why before showing the price. Really tell the story of the pain that so many of us can identify with. - Use a standard three teir pricing box style, with the values of each above the price. Something like: https://planscope.io/pricing/

Thanks - I added a pricing panel.

IMHO switching Buy The Book and Table of Contents sections is a more reasonable strategy.

Re: The Art of Monitoring

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a spectrum to me. We're way behind the curve on monitoring and the "state of the art" in, anywhere but cutting edge shops, is woeful. I'd love folks to be able to anomaly detection easily and simply but the technology and tools aren't quite there yet. I am just hoping to get folks to advance their environments a little way forward.

Yes, the situation is horrible. I'm reluctant to believe that the "cutting edge shops" are doing very well. For good "tools", I have a good paper on the subject, but from all I can see there is essentially no interest. People would prefer not to be bothered. The attitude seems to be, if there is a problem, then we will detect it, eventually if not soon, and then we will fix it.

Hi graycat,

I'm extremely interested in what you have to say on the subject. Where can I drop you a line?

Re: The Art of Monitoring

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post #16

The monitoring considered in the OP is for server farms and networks where the main challenges are rates of false alarms and rates of missed detections. The challenge is to find means of monitoring that will permit selecting the rate of false alarms are willing to tolerate and, then, for that rate, get the lowest rate possible for missed detections. Thus, would like to use the Neyman-Pearson result. Usually, however,…

here's a good article on why anomaly detection is so hard: https://blogs.wavefront.com/2016/04/21/why-is-operational-an...
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