PromCon 2018: Prometheus Monitoring Mixins

Speaker: Tom Wilkie

Prometheus offers powerful open source monitoring and alerting - but that comes with higher degrees of freedom, making pre-configured monitoring "packages" hard to build. Simultaneously, it's becoming accepted wisdom that the developers of a given software package are best placed to operate said software, or at least construct the basic monitoring configuration.

In this talk we present a technique for using Jsonnet (a configuration language from Google) for packaging and deploying "Monitoring Mixins" - extensible and customisable combinations of dashboards, alert definitions and exporters. This technique allows developers of open source projects to publish best-practice monitoring configurations alongside their code, and for users to consume it, customise it and stay up to date. We will present example Mixins for Kubernetes and other services such as Consul, Vault, and Cassandra.

[alexinno]

i feel like jsonnet is very close to what you can do with HCL @hashicorp, not sure which was first out, both are supersets of json and i happen to like the HCL syntax as it's easier to write/read than json.
maybe more effort should go into working together on a project like this (data templating language) and not just repeating or reinventing the wheel ... just my two cents

thank your for the presentation