Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Puppet

Continuous Delivery has taught us to move fast and deliver incremental value into our production environment. To make sure that we are not degrading the user experience, we should make sure that any issues are monitored or alerted. Monitoring can be painful and tedious. There are some fantastic tools out there (nagios, icinga etc.) but these feel like operational tools.

During this session, Paul will show you that a developer can use Puppet (an infrastructure management tool) and automate their system checks. This will include how to centrally log errors and how to throw these errors to specific alerting systems based on their criticality. Monitoring should be simple and easy to maintain. I hope that by the end of this talk, Paul will have demonstrated that