Prometheus instrumentation: the Practical Way - Aditi Ahuja, Couchbase

Prometheus instrumentation: the Practical Way - Aditi Ahuja, Couchbase

Instrumenting applications to expose meaningful metrics is the key to harnessing the power of Prometheus. The native Prometheus client libraries offer a convenient way to define various metrics about essential behaviours of your application in a form of basic metric types: counters, gauges and histograms. Applying this to more complex cases might be challenging.

In this talk you will learn about the instrumenting real application in an example of Thanos (metric data store extending the long term storage capabilities of Prometheus) compaction microservice. The audience will learn practical instrumentation approaches on production-grade software from basic to more complex cases. The complex case is monitoring various stages and estimating the potential compaction durations, which can vary widely based on the data. Aditi will explain Go client implementation using the official Prometheus library, but the same can be generalized to other languages.

At the end of this talk, you will know how to instrument applications and how to unit test that setup! This talk is for everyone looking to start out with instrumenting code and tap that into Prometheus.

[madhavjivrajani]

Great talk! As a beginner, this helped a lot :)