Martin Mao and Rob Skillington are co-founders of Chronosphere; CEO and CTO respectively. They both worked on the monitoring team at Uber, where they created M3: a metrics platform with an open source time-series database built for scale. They join Craig and Adam to talk about monitoring, metrics and M3 on the last episode of 2019.
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Links from the interview

M3 website
M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus
Before: Graphite and its Whisper database
Prometheus

Why pull rather than push?
AlertManager
PromQL


RRDtool
M3 on GitHub: open source from the start
Chronosphere
Rob’s 2019 KubeCon’s talks:

EU: M3 and Prometheus, Monitoring at Planet Scale for Everyone
NA: Deep Linking Metrics and Traces with OpenTelemetry, OpenMetrics and M3


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