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"Those who cannot remember the Borgmon are doomed to repeat it" ;) Just kidding, this is looking really good, I hope to get some hands-on experience with it so

"Those who cannot remember the Borgmon are doomed to repeat it" ;) Just kidding, this is looking really good, I hope to get some hands-on experience with it soon.

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- danellis 12y ago
  What does that mean?
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- cespare 12y ago
  You mean Borgmon? The Google monitoring system that stopped being a secret years and years ago? (One example from 2 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/177267/we_are_the_google_site_reliability_team_we_make/c82y43e https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/177267/we_are_the_goo...)
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    - lifeisstillgood 12y ago
      What on earth? Google imposes non disclosure on ex-employees to mention by name in-house monitoring systems? (Presumably Borg-monitor?) That strikes me as a bit paranoid, not letting the name of a monitoring system be revealed. Am I missing something?
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      - ithkuil 12y ago
        Once I heard a urban legend about a programmer being sued because he was using mickeyMouse as a variable name. I wouldn't be surprised if many of such cases of non-disclosure are to avoid hungry lawyers for trying to suck some blood out of rich companies. I guess the star trek franchise is owned by Paramount or something like this.
  - ggambetta 12y ago
    Thank you. I did, in fact, make sure the name and the fact that it is a monitoring system were already public (and from an official source) before mentioning them in this post.
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chris_va 12y ago
After seeing the Prometheus query language, I opened the comments looking for this quote :).
thesnider 12y ago
After working at a job that had a horrible patchwork of monitoring techniques (including at least two in-house systems), I was desperately pining for borgmon, actually. Never thought those words would come out of my mouth. This does seem to have addressed at least a couple of the issues with that system, in that its config language is sane, and its scrape format is well-defined and typed.

"Those who cannot remember the Borgmon are doomed to repeat it" ;) Just kidding, this is looking really good, I hope to get some hands-on experience with it soon.

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danellis 12y ago
What does that mean?
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cespare 12y ago
You mean Borgmon? The Google monitoring system that stopped being a secret years and years ago? (One example from 2 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/177267/we_are_the_google_site_reliability_team_we_make/c82y43e https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/177267/we_are_the_goo...)
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  - lifeisstillgood 12y ago
    What on earth? Google imposes non disclosure on ex-employees to mention by name in-house monitoring systems? (Presumably Borg-monitor?) That strikes me as a bit paranoid, not letting the name of a monitoring system be revealed. Am I missing something?
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    - ithkuil 12y ago
      Once I heard a urban legend about a programmer being sued because he was using mickeyMouse as a variable name. I wouldn't be surprised if many of such cases of non-disclosure are to avoid hungry lawyers for trying to suck some blood out of rich companies. I guess the star trek franchise is owned by Paramount or something like this.
- ggambetta 12y ago
  Thank you. I did, in fact, make sure the name and the fact that it is a monitoring system were already public (and from an official source) before mentioning them in this post.

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chris_va 12y ago

After seeing the Prometheus query language, I opened the comments looking for this quote :).

thesnider 12y ago

After working at a job that had a horrible patchwork of monitoring techniques (including at least two in-house systems), I was desperately pining for borgmon, actually. Never thought those words would come out of my mouth. This does seem to have addressed at least a couple of the issues with that system, in that its config language is sane, and its scrape format is well-defined and typed.