In this recorded session, Brian Murphy, Technical Staff SRE at Dell Technologies shares how his team, Dell ISG consolidated Observability tooling without losing functionality using Grafana Cloud.
The ISG team own “Northstar Tooling” which consists of Artifactory, Github Enterprise, Jenkins, and more. They also They also manage the Internal Cloud and k8s clusters, as well as all the hardware and networking that goes with it.
Their legacy tool brought upon several challenges:
- Switches were monitored globally, follow the sun
- Each team leveraged Solarwinds differently, or not at all (except alerts)
- Alert fatigue based on broad mailing list and issue-based notifications
- Solarwinds hosted infrastructure was a burden
So they migrated over to Grafana Cloud and resolved most of these issues. They built:
- SNMP configuration files with interesting relabeling schemes++
- SNMP Exporters
- Grafana Agents
- Persona based Dashboards
- Alerts & Notifications
- Adaptive Metrics rules
- Private probe infrastructure leveraging Synthetics & 5 geographically distributed
- Sites
… And achieved these additional results:
- Observability of hardware & network maintained
- Zero gap in reliability
- No negative impact on Customer Experience
This session was recorded at ObservabilityCON on the Road in Dallas, 2024.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:26 Dell's Goals When Starting Out With Grafana Cloud
2:41 About the Dell ISG Team
4:37 Scope of the Effort
5:38 The Challenges With Legacy Tools (Solarwinds)
9:05 A New Hope - The Grafana LGTM Stack - Setting It Up
12:14 Saving Money With Adaptive Metrics
14:15 Synthetic Probes With Grafana Cloud - Great View of Degradation
17:23 Timelines and Transitioning to Grafana Cloud
21:03 Gaps and Benefits
23:07 What's Next for Dell and Grafana Cloud?
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