Richard Hartmann is a member of the Prometheus Team and the founder of the OpenMetrics project, which aims to replace SNMP with a modern format for transmitting metrics. He joins your hosts to discuss both projects, and how Cloud Native technology can improve the datacenter.
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Chatter of the week

Lego collecting delivers huge and uncorrelated market returns

News of the week

Knative 0.3 released
Service Mesh Day; March 28-29, San Francisco
FoundationDB Record Layer
Tumblr open sources Kubernetes tools
gVisor presentation by Adin Scannel
Aleksa Sarai on tar in oci
Detect overspending by measuring idle Kubernetes resources

Karl Stoney’s post on managing costs on Kubernetes


SQL Server on GKE and AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Namely’s Crash Course in Running Istio
Kubernetes failure stories

Zalando
Target


9 security best practices
Google remains the top contributor to CNCF projects, even if you were to remove Kubernetes!

Links from the interview

Space.net

Swiss Army Chainsaw


Prometheus

Built by ex-Googlers at Soundcloud
Better than MRTG and rrdtool
Cortex, Thanos, InfluxData for persisting Prometheus data long-term


Manage multiple DCs
Grafana for visualising data

Variables for templating


PromQL
OpenMetrics

A new Lingua Franca for monitoring and tracing that isn’t SNMP

Export SNMP to Prometheus format


Transforming the Prometheus Exposition Format into a Global Standard; Richard’s PromCon talk
End goal: write an RFC
GitHub repo
Prometheus 2.5 has experimental OpenMetrics support


QUIC becomes HTTP/3
Get involved with the Prometheus community
Richard Hartmann on Twitter