{"id":17552,"date":"2015-09-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3458608"},"modified":"2015-09-25T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T05:00:00","slug":"the-rule-of-log-for-devops-devopssummit-api-apm-devops-bigdata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-rule-of-log-for-devops-devopssummit-api-apm-devops-bigdata\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rule of Log for DevOps | @DevOpsSummit #API #APM #DevOps #BigData"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is interesting\u2014didn\u2019t we see this same thing in the logs just before we crashed last time?\u201d \u2013 an anonymous and somewhat embarrassed DevOps team member<br \/>\nUnfortunately the \u201csame thing\u201d is an obscure, otherwise uninteresting log entry, in a directory structure that\u2019s rarely checked. More unfortunate is that the \u201clast time\u201d was two months ago, when their eCommerce site went down on Black Friday costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they had noticed this same entry but just now made the correlation. Companies have made great strides in attempting to speed up correlations like this and improve MTTR. The question that always arises (usually not long after the CFO sees the price tag) goes something like, \u201cIs it really worth deploying an agent to all of our key app servers with the sole purpose of gathering and merging disconnected artifacts (logs) with the hope of finding an interesting correlation when it counts?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3458608\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;This is interesting&mdash;didn&rsquo;t we see this same thing in the logs just before we crashed last time?&rdquo; &ndash; an anonymous and somewhat embarrassed DevOps team member<br \/>\nUnfortunately the &ldquo;same thing&rdquo; is an obscure, otherwise uninteresting log entry, in a directory structure that&rsquo;s rarely checked. More unfortunate is that the &ldquo;last time&rdquo; was two months ago, when their eCommerce site went down on Black Friday costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they had noticed this same entry but just now made the correlation. Companies have made great strides in attempting to speed up correlations like this and improve MTTR. The question that always arises (usually not long after the CFO sees the price tag) goes something like, &ldquo;Is it really worth deploying an agent to all of our key app servers with the sole purpose of gathering and merging disconnected artifacts (logs) with the hope of finding an interesting correlation when it counts?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3458608\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18016,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions\/18016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}