![]() ![]() Furthermore, anomaly detection allows for tighter alerting bands so you can find issues much faster than you would with static thresholds (which must be fairly broad to avoid false alerts). This is especially useful to catch off-peak problems or unusually low metric values, such as when your web request rate at 3am is 5x higher than normal or drops to zero at noon due to a network problem. Ideally, you can start using anomaly detection on your golden signals. You’ll often be shocked by how bad your percentiles are. If the 95th percentile is good, then most everyone is good. For example, you can alert on 95th percentile latency, which is a much better measure of bad user experience. Are you average or percentile?īasic alerts typically use average values to compare against some threshold, but - if your monitoring system can do it - use median values instead, which are less sensitive to big/small outlier values. If you use static alerting, don’t forget the lower bound alerts, such as near zero requests per second or latency, as these often mean something is wrong, even at 3 a.m. In any case, start with static alerts, but set thresholds to levels where we’re pretty sure something is unusual or wrong, such as latency over 10 seconds, long queues, error rates above a few per second, for example. Static thresholds work, but are hard to set well and generate lots of alert noise, as any ops person (and anyone living with them) will tell you. However, golden signals are also harder to alert on as they don’t fit traditional static alerting thresholds as well as high CPU usage, low available memory or low disk space do. Once you have the data, observe for a while, then start adding basic alerts into your normal workflow to see how these signals affect your systems. The first aspect to focus on is how to alert on these signals.īroadly, you can and should use your current alerting methods on these signals, as they will be more useful than the CPU, RAM, and other lower level indicators that are usually monitored. ![]() Tuning & Capacity Planning - help us make things better over time.Troubleshooting - help us find and fix the problem.Alerting - tell us when something is wrong.We use the golden signals in several ways: This means they are more useful than less-direct measurements such as CPU, RAM, networks, replication lag, and endless other things. One of the key reasons these are “golden” signals is they try to measure things that directly affect the end-user and work-producing parts of the system - they are direct measurements of things that matter. ![]()
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