nark: steroids for graphite
DESCRIPTION
Graphite has an amazing ability to scale horizontally and achieve high availability. What the community is missing is a single source for alerting and dashboards on top of this already amazing product. That's where Nark comes in. Nark is an open source project developed to provide alerting and dashboards for graphite. Developed by engineers at Lucid Software, Nark provides value to ops and product teams alike. Come learn about the project, how you can use it, and how to contribute.TRANSCRIPT
NARK STEROIDS FOR GRAPHITE
Alyssa Stringham, Software Developer
Matthew Barlocker, Chief Architect
Lucid Software Inc
ABOUT ALYSSA
Software Developer at Lucid Software Inc
BYU graduate with Bachelors in Computer Science
I love playing the carillon and piano
fast-paced board games
hats
traveling
playing foosball
ABOUT "THE BARLOCKER"
Chief Architect at Lucid Software Inc
Bachelors Degree from BYU in Computer Science
I love to play board games
go four-wheeling
wrestle my sons
fly airplanes
Follow me on nineofclouds.blogspot.com
GRAPHITE
• Graphite is a realtime, scalable analytics & graphing tool
• Works well with StatsD
• Stores time series data
• Data organized by path name
stats.environment.servers.servername.path.to.metric
stats.environment.servers.servername.path.to.metric2
stats.environment.servers.servername2.path.to.metric
GRAPHITE
Simple to store data Send variable name, value, and timestamp
stats.environment.servername.metricname 10 1399523324879
Simple to retrieve data API to retrieve graphs & data http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/render_api.html
98 complex functions Aggregate Functions (sumSeries, divideSeries, stacked, etc.)
Filtering Functions (maxSeries, exclude, highestAverage, removeBelowValue, etc.)
Transform Functions (abs, log, integral, derivative, etc.)
Sorting Functions (sortByName, sortByMinima, etc.)
See all at http ://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/functions.html
Demo
GRAPHITE - WHAT IT'S MISSING
Dashboards
Interactive graphs (static images aren't good enough)
Variables in targets
Sharing of dashboards
Adaptability for different screen sizes
Alerting
Need reliable, highly-available alerting
Tattle and Cyren aren't good enough
WE NEED TO KNOW WHEN DISASTERS HIT
WE NEED TO KNOW WHEN DISASTERS HIT
NARK
Definitions: 1: "An annoying person or thing"
NARK
Definitions: 1: "An annoying person or thing"
2: "Someone that will report any misbehaving to a higher authority like police, parents and teachers [and the ops team]"
NARK - DASHBOARDS
Graphs Normal vs Stacked
Axes Full vs Power of 2 vs Power of 10
Targets Use Graphite functions
Variable Replacement Variables
Defaults
Options
Interactivity
Tagging
Demo
NARK - ALERTING
Normal and Dynamic Alerts
Thresholds
Alert History
Subscribing Single alert
All alerts with tag
Manage notification settings
Demo
FUTURE OF NARK
More Granular Subscriptions
Alert Acknowledgement
View Current Alerts
Favorite Dashboards
Improving Variables
User Roles (admins)
NARK - TECHNOLOGY
Built on Play & Scala
MySQL
Bootstrap
Dygraph.js
OpenID
High Availability
On Github https://github.com/lucidchart/nark
THANK YOU
Questions?
Contribute at http://www.github.com/lucidchart/nark
JOIN THE TEAM
• Building the next generation of collaborative web applications
• VC funded
• Profitable
• Graduates from MIT, Harvard, Stanford
• Former Google, Amazon, Microsoft employees
https://www.golucid.co/jobs