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Event Logs and A.I.

Many companies in the logging/monitoring space will try to sell you on AI and ML (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) to find abnormal. Continue reading “Event Logs and A.I.”

Author bduncanPosted on 2019-12-122020-08-28Categories Detecting Performance Issues, devops, Diagnosing Issues, Event logs, Problem Solving, SRETags AI, event logs, ML

Event Logs and K.I.S.S.

I’ve worked with event logs for, well, decades. There are quite a few companies that offer services for managing logs and, afaik, only a few doing it right. Continue reading “Event Logs and K.I.S.S.”

Author bduncanPosted on 2019-12-082019-12-08Categories Detecting Performance Issues, devops, Diagnosing Issues, Event logs, Problem Solving, SRETags event logs, time series data

Reading Week #2

First of all, Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, Happy Holidays if you don’t! This week’s interesting read is about a subject I love.. Continue reading “Reading Week #2”

Author bduncanPosted on 2018-12-232018-12-23Categories Detecting Performance Issues, Problem Solving, Reading Week, SRE, System PerformanceTags log files

Solving the Right Problems

Ask the right questions, listen carefully and make sure that you’re not hearing just what you want to hear.. Continue reading “Solving the Right Problems”

Author bduncanPosted on 2018-08-122018-08-12Categories Problem Solving

Don’t Panic!

Some thoughts about handling critical system issues at scale.. Continue reading “Don’t Panic!”

Author bduncanPosted on 2018-08-102018-08-12Categories Diagnosing Issues, Problem Solving, SRE

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