divxflounder

Great article! I'm definitely taking an action item to look into Prometheus. I own DevOps/Monitoring and Alerting my org and it's really cool to see how other companies skin this cat.

I saw Cloudwatch in the pipeline, which is an Amazon product. I know I'm going to make a very controversial statement here, but - why Amazon? With volumes like yours, your scale will eventually hit the point where your cost skyrockets.

Regarding the metrics themselves, you might already do this, but I highly recommend splitting your metrics into a 50th, 95th, and 99th percentile in your Grafana graphs. This will give you a solid idea of not only what your customers experience on average, but edge cases as well.

Do you have a regular forum with how you are reviewing said metrics and pre-solving problems? We're still trying to solve this in multiple teams where I work and have noticed that some teams are great at it and other teams are a little more reactive.

Love to see this stuff :)