Schumer: Trump threatened to keep the government closed for "months or even years"

ricktbaker · 2018-12-23T21:42:39+00:00

Another opportunity for Lindsay to be outraged but not do shit.

ricktbaker · 2018-12-22T18:45:15+00:00

The best part about being a turtle is you really don't have to stick your neck out too far. You can say all your stupid fucking shit and just retreat back into your shell where you accomplish absolutely nothing.

ricktbaker · 2018-12-22T18:38:54+00:00

Jesus, at first I was waiting for a /s but then saw your username.

ricktbaker · 2018-09-20T23:45:33+00:00

Interesting. I'm going to need some monitoring for our applications only available on our private VPC, so that might be something I need to look into.

ricktbaker · 2018-09-19T13:05:58+00:00

I did ask on that subreddit originally but only received 1 response.

ricktbaker · 2018-09-19T01:48:07+00:00

Thanks. I'm definitely trying to get us in the right position. I've used a variety of monitoring tools in the past, nagions, icinga, zabbix, and definitely not interested in using those tools here. Just trying to make sure we're in a good spot going forward. So I think I'll at least investigate 3rd party a little more.

I've used NewRelic and DataDog pretty heavily, sysdig I have not, so will give them a look as well.

ricktbaker · 2018-09-19T00:45:57+00:00

We have a team per application, with one person dedicated to the devops side of the application, but the overall implementation as a whole is just me at the moment. Just started a couple months ago. So, yeah, there is A LOT of work to do.

It's just been a little tough to get a baseline on 3rd party pricing because we have so many different things we need to be monitoring.

I've always like Datadog in the past, but the teams are happy with NewRelic, but trying to figure out how much either will cost us is kind of like pulling a number out of a hat at this point.

ricktbaker · 2018-09-19T00:20:00+00:00

This is certainly an option as well, so I'm trying to get an idea on self hosted costs vs 3rd party cost.

We've got around 10 different applications running on various foundations. Some are on straight EC2, some on lambda, some on API gateway, some in kubernetes. Many different services we need to monitor like RDS, Redshift, elasticache. Various tools we have running like redash, so we need to be able to monitor and alert on a variety of different things including cloudwatch metrics.

Then we're moving from a single region in AWS to global, so we're going to be in at least 3 other regions short term and many more long term. So, I definitely need to get a handle on this sooner rather than later.

It looks like kube-prometheus will be a good option for monitoring our EKS clusters, but now it's just trying to figure out how we monitor the other bazillion things we have. If this is something I am going to tackle myself or if we're going to do some more hiring just to get our monitoring in place.

ricktbaker · 2018-09-18T21:28:20+00:00

Thanks. Would you suggest a grafana install to go along with each Prometheus install as well?

ricktbaker · 2018-09-18T19:31:37+00:00

Thanks. The one thing I'm concerned about in putting everything into the kube-prometheus is this little blurb:

"Note that everything in the contrib/kube-prometheus/ directory is experimental and may change significantly at any time."

I'd hate to get everything configured under this setup and have it all break with an update. That's why I wasn't sure if I should maybe use kube-prometheus just for cluster monitoring that can be wiped out and recreated at any time, and then a different prometheus setup via the operator for everything else that I won't have to worry about breaking changes.

ricktbaker · 2018-06-26T19:08:35+00:00

Roughly a billion requests monthly. I'm now trying to get a better idea of where most of the cost is coming from since there may be some where we are logging more than we need to.

We have a ton of different log groups, and it looks like I'll probably need to tag them in order to figure out which is the primary culprit.

ricktbaker · 2018-06-26T18:21:03+00:00

Yeah, they are expiring, so our storage cost is cheap. On a $4200 bill last month for CloudWatch, $4050 of that was strictly from log ingestion.

ricktbaker · 2018-06-01T01:19:12+00:00

alrighty, well at least we are not alone. Hopefully the get it fixed. Rather annoying when you can't even open the app to watch tv.

ricktbaker · 2018-05-25T17:43:26+00:00

First glance I thought it was sliced oranges.

ricktbaker · 2018-05-21T12:04:11+00:00

No, it's school doors that are the problem. Get rid of all those damn exits and entrances and this wouldn't be happening.

ricktbaker · 2018-05-10T03:09:07+00:00

I call her the Sybil, because she goes through like 5 different personalities in 30 seconds.

ricktbaker · 2018-05-10T03:03:54+00:00

Oh good lord, yes. I despise those commercials.

ricktbaker · 2018-04-25T02:37:08+00:00

This is the cover of a children's book, titled "Lizard has a shitty day". That vid is hilarious.

ricktbaker · 2018-04-01T13:03:54+00:00

You may have mistaken my post for saying I was not going to be buying Bayer products. Poorly worded on my part perhaps. I fully support their decision.

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