Ask HN: DevOps, why do people still use Grafana/Prometheus etc.?
What is the point of "monitoring", setting up a fancy dahsboard showing some graphs of some time-series data? Ive seen this used only to impress management and to get a "star treky" look in the office. But no body actually stands and looks at a graph as their day-job, nor should they. Nor do alarms go out to people from the Grafana dashboard. Here is the thing, if you can have alarms go out that something is wrong, you have that then why do you need to see that on a graph? I really dont see the point of "monitoring solutions" when any actionable event (even if it is generated by "interpreting time-series data by 'machine learning'", can just be an actionable event without showing stuff on a dashboard. Enlighten me devops monitoring folks please? 4 comments on Hacker News.
What is the point of "monitoring", setting up a fancy dahsboard showing some graphs of some time-series data? Ive seen this used only to impress management and to get a "star treky" look in the office. But no body actually stands and looks at a graph as their day-job, nor should they. Nor do alarms go out to people from the Grafana dashboard. Here is the thing, if you can have alarms go out that something is wrong, you have that then why do you need to see that on a graph? I really dont see the point of "monitoring solutions" when any actionable event (even if it is generated by "interpreting time-series data by 'machine learning'", can just be an actionable event without showing stuff on a dashboard. Enlighten me devops monitoring folks please?
What is the point of "monitoring", setting up a fancy dahsboard showing some graphs of some time-series data? Ive seen this used only to impress management and to get a "star treky" look in the office. But no body actually stands and looks at a graph as their day-job, nor should they. Nor do alarms go out to people from the Grafana dashboard. Here is the thing, if you can have alarms go out that something is wrong, you have that then why do you need to see that on a graph? I really dont see the point of "monitoring solutions" when any actionable event (even if it is generated by "interpreting time-series data by 'machine learning'", can just be an actionable event without showing stuff on a dashboard. Enlighten me devops monitoring folks please? 4 comments on Hacker News.
What is the point of "monitoring", setting up a fancy dahsboard showing some graphs of some time-series data? Ive seen this used only to impress management and to get a "star treky" look in the office. But no body actually stands and looks at a graph as their day-job, nor should they. Nor do alarms go out to people from the Grafana dashboard. Here is the thing, if you can have alarms go out that something is wrong, you have that then why do you need to see that on a graph? I really dont see the point of "monitoring solutions" when any actionable event (even if it is generated by "interpreting time-series data by 'machine learning'", can just be an actionable event without showing stuff on a dashboard. Enlighten me devops monitoring folks please?
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