The Second Way - Create Telemetry to Enable Seeing and Solving Problems

13 important questions on The Second Way - Create Telemetry to Enable Seeing and Solving Problems

Where does telemetry have to be created?

  • Within the application
  • Deployment pipeline
  • Pre-production environments
  • Production environment

Which are according to 2015 State of Devops report are the top two technical practices to enable fast MTTR?

  • Version controle
  • Telemetry and proactive monitoring in the production environment.

What has to be part of the telemetry architecture?

  • Data collection at the business logic, application and environment layer
  • An event router responsible for storing our events and metrics.
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Name different logging levels.

  • Debug level
  • Info level (user driven or system specific)
  • Warn level (conditions that could become an error)
  • Error level (e.g. API call failures, internal error conditions)
  • Fatal level (information to terminate)

What questions can be asked when solving a problem using the telemetry?

  • What evidence do we have from our monitoring that a problem is actually occurring?
  • What are the relevant events and changes in our application and environments that could have contributed to the problem?
  • What hypothesis can we formulate to confirm the link between the proposed causes and effects?
  • How can we prove which of these hypothesis are correct and succesfully effect a fix?

Name a few metric libraries for creating telemetry.

  • StatsD (open source created by Etsy)
  • JMX
  • codahale metrics
  • New relic
  • Appdynamics
  • Dynatrace
  • Munin
  • Collectd

What is information radiator?

The generic term for any of a number of handwritten, drawn, printed or electronic displays which a team places in a highly visible location, so that all team members as well as passers-by can see the latest information at a glance: count of automated tests, velocity, incident reports, continuous integration status, and so on.

Which values are demonstrated by putting information radiators in visible places?

  • The team has nothing to hide from its visitors
  • The team has nothing to hide from itself; it acknowledge and confronts problems.

From which levels do we need telemetry?

  • Business level
  • Application level
  • Infrastructure level
  • Client software level
  • Deployment pipeline level
  • overlaying information (e.g. Operational activities as downtime,)

Where are business metrics used for?

  • For our acquisition funnel
  • A/B testing
  • Organizational goals e.g. revenue, user attainment, conversion rates
  • high level business planning and operations
  • analyzing customer usage.

Name a few infrastructure production tools?

Zookeeper, Etcd, Consul.

At application level we generate telemetry for..

  • Application health
  • If organizational goals are achieved.

What's customer acquisition funnel?

A process or place where you turn prospects into customers.
This is where the business metrics are needed for.

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