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It’s kind of amusing the Prometheus has all this traction. When I was at Google we joked about describing borgmon in an “industry-disabling paper”. Such are the
by ebikelaw 8y ago
It’s kind of amusing the Prometheus has all this traction. When I was at Google we joked about describing borgmon in an “industry-disabling paper”. Such are the horrors of borgmon. But the whole industry has embraced Prometheus which is just borgmon!
- justicezyx 8y agoBorgmon's model is pretty solid. It was sort of crippled by the user-facing part, which was clearly (to me) over-engineered. And the lasting neglect of attention helped the tech debt to grow. Over-engineered + lack of maintenance == tech bankrupted ==> everyone started loath it ==> everyone concluded that it was designed wrong Disclaimer #1: I am part of the borg team. Disclaimer #2: I have been deliberately high-level and no details attached; please let me know if I need to revise this. Edit: 'review' -> 'revise' (I am pretty good and writing typo unconsciously ...)
- hspak 8y agoWhat part of borgmon is considered user-facing? The client library? The /metrics endpoint? I'm trying to think in terms of Prometheus and how it could be (is?) over-engineered. I have never seen/used borgmon, sorry for the ignorance.
- ebikelaw 8y agoIt guess it depends on your point of view. I think of the rules language as being the "user-facing" part.