Nark: Steroids for Graphite
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Graphite has an amazing ability to scale horizontally and achieve high availability. What the community is missing is a single source for alerting and dashboards on top of this already amazing product. That's where Nark comes in. Nark is an open source project developed to provide alerting and dashboards for graphite. Developed by engineers at Lucid Software, Nark provides value to ops and product teams alike. Come learn about the project, how you can use it, and how to contribute.
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2: "Someone that will report
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Nark: Steroids for Graphite
- 1. NARK STEROIDS FOR GRAPHITE Alyssa Stringham, Software Developer Matthew Barlocker,Chief Architect Lucid Software Inc
- 2. ABOUTALYSSA ? Software Developer at Lucid Software Inc ? BYU graduate with Bachelors in ComputerScience ? I love ? playing the carillon and piano ? fast-paced board games ? hats ? traveling ? playing foosball
- 3. ABOUT "THE BARLOCKER" ? Chief Architect at Lucid Software Inc ? Bachelors Degree from BYU in ComputerScience ? I love to ? play board games ? go four-wheeling ? wrestle my sons ? fly airplanes ? Follow me on nineofclouds.blogspot.com
- 4. GRAPHITE ? Graphite is a realtime, scalable analytics & graphing tool ? Works well with StatsD ? Stores time series data ? Data organized by path name stats.environment.servers.servername.path.to.metric stats.environment.servers.servername.path.to.metric2 stats.environment.servers.servername2.path.to.metric
- 5. GRAPHITE ? Simple to store data ? Send variable name, value, and timestamp stats.environment.servername.metricname 10 1399523324879 ? Simple to retrieve data ? API to retrieve graphs & data ? http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/render_api.html ? 98 complex functions ? Aggregate Functions (sumSeries, divideSeries, stacked, etc.) ? Filtering Functions (maxSeries, exclude, highestAverage, removeBelowValue, etc.) ? Transform Functions (abs, log, integral, derivative, etc.) ? Sorting Functions (sortByName, sortByMinima, etc.) ? See all at http ://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/functions.html ? Demo
- 8. GRAPHITE -WHAT IT'S MISSING ? Dashboards ? Interactive graphs (static images aren't good enough) ? Variables in targets ? Sharing of dashboards ? Adaptability for different screen sizes ? Alerting ? Need reliable, highly-available alerting ? Tattle andCyren aren't good enough
- 9. WE NEEDTO KNOWWHEN DISASTERS HIT
- 10. WE NEEDTO KNOWWHEN DISASTERS HIT
- 11. NARK Definitions: 1: "An annoying person or thing"
- 12. NARK Definitions: 1: "An annoying person or thing" 2: "Someone that will report any misbehaving to a higher authority like police, parents and teachers [and the ops team]"
- 13. NARK - DASHBOARDS ? Graphs ? Normal vs Stacked ? Axes ? Full vs Power of 2 vs Power of 10 ? Targets ? UseGraphite functions ? Variable Replacement ? Variables ? Defaults ? Options ? Interactivity ? Tagging ? Demo
- 21. NARK - ALERTING ? Normal and DynamicAlerts ? Thresholds ? Alert History ? Subscribing ? Single alert ? All alerts with tag ? Manage notification settings ? Demo
- 23. FUTUREOF NARK ? MoreGranular Subscriptions ? AlertAcknowledgement ? ViewCurrentAlerts ? Favorite Dashboards ? ImprovingVariables ? User Roles (admins)
- 24. NARK -TECHNOLOGY ? Built on Play & Scala ? MySQL ? Bootstrap ? Dygraph.js ? OpenID ? HighAvailability ? OnGithub ? https://github.com/lucidchart/nark
- 26. JOINTHETEAM ? Building the next generation of collaborative web applications ? VC funded ? Profitable ? Graduates from MIT, Harvard, Stanford ? Former Google, Amazon, Microsoft employees https://www.golucid.co/jobs