I am a big fan of James Turnbull (https://jamesturnbull.net/) mainly because his Docker and Art of Monitoring books have been incredibly relevant to one of my day jobs. I really knew nothing about Docker until I went through his book step by step. It has since occurred to me that since I am starting from such a low base, many of the benefits of Docker over non-container technologies are probably lost on me.
That being said, I am about a third of the way through The Art of Monitoring (https://artofmonitoring.com/) and having launched six AWS EC2 instances and then configuring each with Riemann, Grafana, Carbon and Collectd, I think I get it better than I did before. In fact I have added being able to containerise these tools to my learning and to do list – which is getting longer every day (and I may include it on this blog at some point).
In fact I have added all of the James Turnbull books to my to do list as I see them as being critical to achieving my mission.
In today’s updates, I have been getting emails like this:
This is quite exciting. Turns out Riemann logging has been going barmy on one of my six EC2 instances:
No idea why yet but has further added to my to do list:
- Why is this happening and why on only one host?
- How do I set up a log rotation policy (although it would have to be severe to control this scenario)?
- Why are the email notifications bouncing with “address not found”. (I forgot to mention that.)
Back soon.
