Infrastructure monitoring: making silence a good thing • Sarah Krasnik • PlatformCon 2022

As companies grow, platform teams manage more infrastructure with higher visibility. A database approaching capacity will result in longer load times for users, ultimately bringing down conversions. Poorly performing infrastructure affects top-line business metrics, making a case for investing in platform monitoring tools. In this talk, we’ll walk through using infrastructure observability tools to help platform teams not only quickly respond to issues but prevent them in the first place. Listeners will learn how to implement an infrastructure alerting strategy to ensure DevOps teams can operate under a “silence is good” mentality.

Speaker: Sarah Krasnik, Data Engineer & Analytics Professional.

Bio: Sarah not only built out data platforms from the ground up, but lead data engineering teams that are responsible for production systems. Oftentimes she finds analytics teams are eager to build out analytics for both data and infrastructure monitoring, something that software engineers can leverage as well. Currently, she is an analytics consultant and advisor.