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Gauges, Counters, and Ratios, Oh My!
Caskey L. Dickson, Google, Inc.
The only thing worse than no metrics are bad and/or misleading ones. Well-designed metrics enable you to quickly know the state of your service and have confidence that your systems are healthy. Poor metrics distract you from finding root causes of outages and extend downtime. Unfortunately it isn't always obvious what counts and how to count it. This talk will cover the essential attributes needed in quality metrics and walk participants through the steps needed to capture them in a useful format while avoiding common pitfalls in metric design.
Caskey L. Dickson, Google, Inc.
Caskey Dickson is a Site Reliability Engineer/Software Engineer at Google, where he works on writing and maintaining monitoring services that operate at "Google scale." Before coming to Google he was a senior developer at Symantec, wrote software for various internet startups such as CitySearch and CarsDirect, ran a consulting company, and taught undergraduate and graduate computer science at Loyola Marymount University. He has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, a Masters in Systems Engineering, and an MBA from Loyola Marymount.
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author = {Caskey L. Dickson},
title = {Gauges, Counters, and Ratios, Oh My!},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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