Fresh/Brewed

This is not a sharp picture - not even that good. I was flying early in the morning friday July 19th when I realized something was really wrong. The ticket counter was in a flurry of checking lists and creating paper tickets. I would learn within 30m that Spirit Airlines was SOL in the airport and the TSA was checking my paper ticket against printed manifests. I couldn't be prouder of my own teams at work for having dug in and weathered the Crowdstrike storm - it's a testament of having skilled, available and committed SREs. By the time I landed and was back at my desk to help, the main production systems were healthy. I can't really speak to the rest - but my day wrapped later than usual friday but it was an amazing team effort and really, I couldn't be prouder of the people I work with at WellSky

Instana: Part 2: GCP, Cloud Services, Databases, Hosts, Monitoring and Alerting

Published Jan 17, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

In the last post we covered setup, serverless and Open Telemetry. Today we’ll really dive into Alerts with a focus on Teams and PagerDuty. We’ll look at Instana on a cloud hosted cluster (AKS) an...

VIDEO: Containerized Mainframe code with Dapr, OpenTelemetry, Datadog and GKE

Published Jan 13, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

After a great conversation with Diagrid I was asked to speak about containerizing Mainframe Code (COBOL) and using Dapr.io to orchestrate in Kubernetes.

Instana: Part 1: Setup, K8s, Website and Open Telemetry

Published Jan 10, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Today we will dig into creating an Instana account and setting up Host and Kubernetes monitors. We’ll look into serverless (AWS Lambdas) and tracing through Open Telemetry.

Gear 360 - Converting Spherical 360 video

Published Jan 5, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

This is just a quick how-to since Samsung has seemingly abondened the Gear360.

Dynatrace Revisit (3/3): Production, Testing, PagerDuty, Mobile App and Buy-Now

Published Jan 3, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

We’ve covered much of Dynatrace in our last two posts, but we have yet to use in production. Today we’ll install into a primary cluster and test.

Dynatrace Revisit (2/3): Serverless, Agentless, Hosts, Alerting and Removal

Published Dec 30, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Early this week we covered setup. Today we’ll dive into Serverless monitoring of GCP Cloud Run and AWS Lambda use NodeJS examples.