Anyone responsible for operating OpenStack infrastructure to support production workloads at scale knows two things. First, application and infrastructure monitoring tooling is a patchwork of bits and pieces, with much assembly required. Second, the reliability and performance of that monitoring often is the difference between happy users and angry phone calls when performance drops below minimum acceptable thresholds.
ViaSat operates OpenStack in production to support the company's developers, who build apps to support demanding satellite broadband customers worldwide.
In this session, Mike Craft of ViaSat and Travis Newhouse of AppFormix will show how ViaSat approaches service optimization through performance monitoring. They will talk about the importance of low-latency agents and message bus architecture, and how to give application developers visibility into how the infrastructure is performing, giving them power to troubleshoot issues before they become IT trouble tickets.
They will learn what their options are for tooling that accomplishes the above from someone with first-hand experiences operating OpenStack in production.