monitoring using open source technologies

MonitoringUsing

Open Source Technologies

Utkarsh Bhatnagar

• Senior Software Engineer @ Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation).• An active contributor to Grafana.• Project initiator for wizzy – a user friendly CLI tool for GRAFANA

GitHub - https://github.com/utkarshcmuEmail – [email protected]

GrafanaCon 2016 Speaker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llRhdvV25rg

mailto:[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llRhdvV25rg

Monitoring using

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PlayStation Outage!

Hi, I am Jack.

Sometime 2 years back…

POC on Monitoring

Requirements:

• 50,000 unique metrics from one source• Data points every minute• Roughly about 72 million data points per day• Data retention 60 days• User friendly UI with possible customization

Monitoring Stack

METRICSOURCE

Time Series Database Visualization Layer

Choosing the technology!

POCDesign & Architecture

METRICSOURCE

POC Completed!

Mission accomplished!

1 metrics source50,000 unique metrics

72 million data points per day

Metrics OnboardingTeam 1 Requirements:• 100,000 unique metrics• About 200 million data points per day

Team 2 Requirements:• 400,000 unique metrics• About 600 million data points per day

Team 3 Requirements:• 500,000 unique metrics• About 2 billion data points per day

Team 4 Requirements:• 800,000 unique metrics• About 5 billion data points per day

And more………

POCDesign & Architecture

METRICSOURCE

How to Scale?

Should he continue with Graphite?Should he ask to reduce metrics or datapoints?

How to dynamically scale Graphite?Does Grafana support other datasources?

OpenTSDB / InfluxDB / KairosDB / Prometheus?Support scaling Infrastructure to support variable load of metrics?

Challenges:• Multiple teams• Millions of unique metrics• Above 10 billion data points a day• Process 3 million logs every minute

and generate metrics• Reprocessing of metrics and logs if

needed• Provide real time monitoring for all

of the above using GRAFANA!

Strategy

Divide & Conquer

Team 1 Requirements:• 100,000 unique metrics• About 200 million data

points per day

Team 2 Requirements:• 500,000 unique metrics• About 2 billion data

points per day

Team 3 Requirements:• 3 million logs a minute• Generate metrics in real

time

And more………


points per day

Design & Architecture

POCMETRICSOURCE

POC works for:



Team 1 requirements:



TEAM 1 METRIC SOURCE

Team 1 Conquered!

This strategy works! Bring it on!

Strategy

Divide & Conquer


points per day


points per day


time

And more………


points per day


POCMETRICSOURCE



2 billion data points per day



Team 2 Conquered!


POCMETRICSOURCE






Scaling Graphite

Clustering Graphite

CARBON RELAY

CARBON CACHE + WHISPER +

GRAPHITE WEB


GRAPHITE WEB


GRAPHITE WEB. . .

GRAPHITE WEB GRAPHITE WEB

LOAD BALANCER


POCMETRICSOURCE






CR

G G G. . .

GW GW

LB

Team 2 Conquered!

But……. Happiness lasted only for a month


POCMETRICSOURCE






CR

G G G. . .

GW GW

LB

Scalable Alternatives ToGraphite


POCMETRICSOURCE






CR

G G G. . .

GW GW

LB

Team 2 Conquered!

Finally!

Strategy

Divide & Conquer


points per day


points per day


time

And more………


time

How to process logs at scale?


POCMETRICSOURCE



Over 5000 log sources3 million logs per minute


LOGS SOURCES

Team 3 Conquered!

But …. One day..


POCMETRICSOURCE



LOGS SOURCES

Design & ArchitectureMETRIC SOURCE 1

METRIC SOURCE 2

METRIC SOURCE 3

METRIC SOURCE N

LOGS SOURCES

LB

Alerting

Metrics & Logs Sources

Graphite Stats- Apps using a stats library written byAlexander Filipchik

Custom metrics- From other sources

Lessons Learned

Strategy

Divide & Conquer

Look for alternatives!

Choose scalable components!

(Subject to effort and time)

Automation

Design & ArchitectureMETRIC SOURCE 1

METRIC SOURCE 2

METRIC SOURCE 3

METRIC SOURCE N

LOGS SOURCES

LB

Alerting

Some numbers• More than 3 million unique metrics supported

- creation and deletion happens all the time

• More than 11 billion data points written per day- across all TSDBs

• Processing about 40 billion events per day- logs and metrics events in near real time (within 30 seconds)

• More than 3000 requests per minute to Grafana dashboards- around 7000 requests in during outages

Monitoring Stack @ Sony PlayStation

METRIC SOURCE 1

METRIC SOURCE 2

METRIC SOURCE 3

METRIC SOURCE N

LOGS SOURCES

LB

Alerting

Grafana

A metrics visualization and alerting tool

Supports multipletime series databases

Supports multiple panel types

https://grafana.net/plugins




Supports multiplenotification channels for alerting

Other features……• Alert lists

• Drilldown links

• Template variables

• Dashboard snapshots

• Grafana.net community

• Grafana CLI

http://grafana.org/

http://docs.grafana.org/

https://github.com/grafana/grafana

https://raintank.slack.com

Grafana links!





https://raintank.slack.com/

https://raintank.slack.com/

• Move• Copy• Extract• Insert• Remove

• Rows• Panels• Template variables• Dashboard tags

• Dashboards• Datasources• Orgs• Rows• Panels• Template variables• Dashboard tags

Version Control

• Production• Staging• Testing• Development

Grafana in multiple environments

• Last 24 hours• By a dashboard tag• Customized dashboard list

Generate GIFs of important dashboards

Generate GIFs of important dashboards

• Upload/Store/Download dashboards to/in/from AWS S3 respectively.

• Search/Download community dashboards from Grafana.net

External features

https://utkarshcmu.github.io/wizzy-site/

https://utkarshcmu.github.io/wizzy-site/home/

https://github.com/utkarshcmu/wizzy

https://raintank.slack.com/messages/wizzy/

wizzy links!

https://utkarshcmu.github.io/wizzy-site/

https://utkarshcmu.github.io/wizzy-site/home/

https://github.com/utkarshcmu/wizzy

https://raintank.slack.com/messages/wizzy/

Utkarsh Bhatnagar

• Senior Software Engineer @ Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation).• An active contributor to Grafana.• Project initiator for wizzy – a user friendly CLI tool for GRAFANA

GitHub - https://github.com/utkarshcmuEmail – [email protected]

GrafanaCon 2016 Speaker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llRhdvV25rg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llRhdvV25rg

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