Intro
Monitoring is important
you can’t manage what you haven’t measured
Monitoring is hard
just because it’s up doesn’t mean it’s working
Distributed systems are complex
Reasoning
Gestalt
The whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts
No single tool will fit the needs of everyone
Better to build a cohesive whole out of orthogonal pieces
Critical elements
If it moves graph it, if it’s important alert on it.