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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by cletus on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:45PM (#29083767)
Ah, this takes me back (disclaimer: Xooger, 2010-2017). It's painful and funny because it's true. Or was true.

Rumour had it that the Borgmon readability requirement was removed when Sergey saw this video. I don't know if this is true but that's what I heard.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by leg on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:14PM (#29084236)
It is true that Borgmon readability went away due to this video. It wasn't Sergey, it was an eng director.
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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by ikiris on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:40PM (#29084662)
"no one has borgmon readability". years later and i still die laughing.
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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @03:06PM (#29085983)
Pray tell, what is/was Borgmon?
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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by twinge on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @03:23PM (#29086220)
A system for alerting based on time-series data, with its own rule language. The language (along with many others) required authors have demonstrated they can adhere to the style guide by going through a process to obtain readability.

https://sre.google/sre-book/practical-alerting/

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by sleepydog on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @03:30PM (#29086302)
It's a language and supporting infrastructure for collecting and querying time series data for monitoring.

It was replaced a long time ago by a new system called monarch, but a few holdouts will probably continue using borgmon until the heat death of the universe.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by ikiris on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:28PM (#29088940)
If monarch supported large customers it would take over those holdouts
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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by dekhn on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @03:42PM (#29086450)
prometheus 0.1
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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by knorker on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:42PM (#29097960)
To elaborate on this answer: Prometheus was written by ex-Googlers who had no shame in copying Borgmon pretty much exactly, syntax-compatible and all.
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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by jensensbutton on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:04PM (#29087335)
This is the correct answer.
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