BloodKnight9923

I've been playing with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stacks for the past couple months and that has given me great insights into what my product is doing in a clustered state in real time. That coupled with a few monitoring scripts and I've finally gotten past feeling helpless. I have a few people saying I should check out Grafana, and I've seen several paid services in this areas too (logentries for example).

I also use chatbots to notify me when things are going wrong, or say when a customer signs up.

How do you keep track of your products, keep monitoring costs low, and know what's going on?

I use docker extensively with python backed ansible scripts to manage my product deployments (with a jenkins CI/CD pipeline). That has been a lot of fun, but I have also played with both Kubernetes and Openshift.

I love what Openshift Origin can do, but the learning curve is like a brick wall (See Dwarf Fortress Fun for an example) and the costs are far from minimal.

Kubernetes is easier to learn, but comes with its own gotchas.

What do you do to maintain stable deployments that allow for easy CI/CD? How do you minimize costs with your solution?