From TFA... >every dashboard is a sunk cost >every dashboard is an answer to some long-forgotten question >every dashboard is an invitation to pattern-match the past >instead of interrogate the present >every dashboard gives the illusion of correlation >every dashboard dampens your thinking I disagree with this on all counts. A dashboard is a way to view multiple disparate metrics in a single place. Whether they are…
Hear hear. At CoreOS I set up a number of dashboards specifically to socialize the normative behavior of our systems. Think of it as the difference between the person who just drives their car versus the person who knows what feels and sounds "normal". The latter can tell when they need an oil change because of different vibrations in the engine and how the car sounds pulling up to a stop light (because of the engine…
If you have no feel for what normal looks like on you system then it'll take longer to notice problems and longer to fix them.