One of the only professional achievements I was responsible for is getting the FT to move away from splunk logging, to generating metrics directly.
I installed a graphite/grafana cluster[1], and delivered a bunch of tech talks on how to massage raw metrics into useable metrics that related to business goals.
I did this because I hated waiting for splunk graphs to generate, and I could never really get any kind of actionable graphs out of it.
over a couple of years it went from a couple of thousand metrics to well over a million active metrics. (anything not updated in the last 7 days was deleted)
but the biggest "oh its actually useful" was seeing product owners, scrum leaders and buisness analysts create, update use dashboards, and setting alerts on service health _without_ software engineering help. It was brilliant, and a testament to how simple graphite/grafana is to use.
[1]well, I installed a graphite cluster, someone twisted my arm to get grafana installed.
I installed a graphite/grafana cluster[1], and delivered a bunch of tech talks on how to massage raw metrics into useable metrics that related to business goals.
I did this because I hated waiting for splunk graphs to generate, and I could never really get any kind of actionable graphs out of it.
over a couple of years it went from a couple of thousand metrics to well over a million active metrics. (anything not updated in the last 7 days was deleted)
but the biggest "oh its actually useful" was seeing product owners, scrum leaders and buisness analysts create, update use dashboards, and setting alerts on service health _without_ software engineering help. It was brilliant, and a testament to how simple graphite/grafana is to use.
[1]well, I installed a graphite cluster, someone twisted my arm to get grafana installed.