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Rethink Monitoring
What Just Happened? Leveraging Puppet & Boundary to Manage Dynamic Environments
Molly Stamos, Director of Products
Boundary: Highly Distributed Platform delivering SaaS
• Boundary is a SaaS application that monitors application performance by analyzing application communication over the network"
• Platform runs on Ubuntu Linux with a mix of off the shelf and home grown components "
• Continuous deployment shop - code rolled into production as its ready "
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Boundary: The Team
• “devops” shop – but two primary Ops guys managing about 200 nodes and overseeing all automation "
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• Everyone participates in operations – everyone is on call rotation (and gets the joy of 2am wake up calls)"
• Environment is hosted – Provider racks & stacks – Joe & Scott do everything else"
Scott Smith Joe Williams
An Example (but first a quick look at Boundary)
Configuration Change in Production
• Kobayashi is our historical data store "• 9 node cluster "• Riak under the covers"• Provides historical feed of data for Boundary dashboards (beyond streaming system)"
• Configuration change needed to alleviate feared future performance problems"
• In Riak, must perform a “rolling upgrade”"• Push config change to each node one at a time, restart services, wait for cluster to reach steady state"
• Unsure how cluster behavior would change "
Using Boundary to Assess Cluster Health
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Unexpected Benefit: Evenly Distributed Writes Across the Cluster
BEFORE" AFTER"
Application Latency (App RTT) Before the Change
• Node Data06 is 2x slower than the rest of the nodes"
Application Latency (App RTT) After the Change
• App RTT are tightly grouped around 4-5 ms"
Boundary & Puppet Using the Puppet Module
Download and Install the Boundary Module
• Fairly Straightforward:"• sudo puppet module search boundary • sudo puppet module install puppetlabs-boundary
Make sure you get this one: puppetlabs-boundary (NOT the bprobe one) !
• **Some configuration required**"• Boundary::params class – set your API Key and your OrgID "
• Located in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/boundary/manifests/params.pp"
• Boundary.yaml file – set your API Key and OrgID "• Located in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/boundary/"
Where to get your API Key & OrgID in Boundary
• Go to Organization -> Settings"
• API Key & OrgID"• API Key is like your password – keep it secret"
Using Puppet to Deploy the Boundary Meter
Get Boundary Now
• Boundary: http://boundary.com/signup/"• Literally takes less than 2 minutes to deploy"
• When was the last time a monitoring tool took less than 2 minutes to set up?"
• Free to use up to 2GB per day "
• How do I get more information? "• Website: www.boundary.com"
• Email: service@boundary.com"
Rethink Monitoring
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