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What tools do they use? It's not hard to build a dashboard in Grafana and show them there the metrics they want, in an easily-digestible format.
by gjulianm 4y ago
What tools do they use? It's not hard to build a dashboard in Grafana and show them there the metrics they want, in an easily-digestible format.
- cduzz 4y agoThere's an entire universe of people making business decisions who live in excel and "BI" tools. If your thing doesn't speak ODBC / JDBC it's invisible. Further, the vast majority of workaday devs are stressed out and under tremendous pressure to thing all the things in their ticket queue. They're probably pretty fluent in their thinging language and likely also conversant in SQL. Asking them "hey learn this other query language, because" is just adding stress to them. Sure, some are going to rise above and promql things too, but for lots, it's telling them to "write a distributed map reduce query in erlang."
- gjulianm 4y agoPromQL is barely a language. For availability, the query would be as simple as the series name and it would return everything. Also, there's an adapter so that Prometheus writes to PostgreSQL. However, Prometheus is not a tool that specializes in reporting availability to people who live in Excel. Prometheus scrapes metric from a lot of systems in a standard format, and enables you to see what's happening and write alerts to fix things when they break, without requiring complex frameworks. Reporting availability to people is just a small, tiny thing that Prometheus is able to do.