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b"Monitoring in the entire technical world is terrible and continues to be a giant, confusing mess. How do you monitor? Are you monitoring things the wrong way? Why not hire a monitoring consultant! \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\nToday, we\\u2019re talking to monitoring consultant Mike Julian, who is the editor of the Monitoring Weekly newsletter and author of O\\u2019Reilly\\u2019s Practical Monitoring. He is the voice of monitoring.\\nSome of the highlights of the show include:\\n\\nObservability comes from control theory and monitoring is for what we can anticipate\\nIndustry\\u2019s lack of interest and focus on monitoring\\nWhen there\\u2019s an outage, why doesn\\u2019t monitoring catch it?\\u201d Unforeseen things.\\nCost and failure of running tools and systems that are obtuse to monitor\\nOutsource monitoring instead of devoting time, energy, and personnel to it\\nOutsourcing infrastructure means you give up some control; how you monitor and manage systems changes when on the Cloud\\nCloudWatch: Where metrics go to die\\nDistributed and Implemented Tracing: Tracing calls as they move through a system\\nServerless Functions: Difficulties experienced and techniques to use \\nWarm vs. Cold Start: If a container isn't up and running, it has to set up database connections\\nMonitoring can't fix a bad architecture; it can't fix anything; improve the application architecture\\nVisibility of outages and pain perceived; different services have different availability levels\\n\\nLinks:\\n\\nMike Julian\\nMonitoring Weekly\\nCopy Construct on Twitter \\nBaron Schwartz on Twitter\\nCharity Majors on Twitter\\nRedis\\nKubernetes\\nNagios\\nDatadog\\nNew Relic\\nSumo Logic\\nPrometheus\\nHoneycomb\\nHoneycomb Blog\\nCloudWatch\\nZipkin\\nX-Ray\\nLambda\\nDynamoDB\\nPinboard\\nSlack\\nDigital Ocean"