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Two things to consider: 1. UDP packets are lossy, we had the UDP buffers of our Influx server fill up, and it took us a long time to detect we were dropping pa
by sytse 9y ago
Two things to consider:
1. UDP packets are lossy, we had the UDP buffers of our Influx server fill up, and it took us a long time to detect we were dropping packets.
2. Many people want to detect when they are not getting data from an endpoint. Polling is a great way to quickly detect a endpoint is down.
- pstuart 9y agoFor argument's sake (abuse is down the hall): 1. My understanding of UDP being lossy typically refers to it happening via transit but your example is an endpoint failure. 2. Since the whole point of metrics is to keep track of operations then the monitoring of the metrics themselves should be alerting to anomalies?