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Talks - Hannah, Lalleh, Timothy, Uma: Instrumentation Nightmares: A review of our toughest cases
Instrumentation nightmares: Review of tough cases and best practices for monitoring application performance.
- Instrumentation can be a frustrating and time-consuming process, but it’s essential for monitoring application performance.
- Start with a clear understanding of the application’s architecture and requirements.
- Identify the most critical components and prioritize instrumentation efforts accordingly.
- Use a combination of logging, metrics, and distributed tracing to gain a comprehensive view of application behavior.
- Consider using an instrumentation framework or library to simplify the process and reduce the risk of errors.
- Be mindful of instrumentation overhead and minimize the impact on application performance.
- Implement instrumentation in small, incremental steps, starting with the most critical components and gradual progress.
- Test and validate instrumentation configurations thoroughly to ensure accuracy and reliability.
- Make instrumentation a standard part of the development process, and enforce instrumentation best practices throughout the organization.
- Continuously monitor and improve instrumentation configurations as the application evolves and new requirements emerge.
- Consider using AI-powered instrumentation tools to automate and optimize instrumentation efforts.
- Educate developers on instrumentation best practices and advocate for instrumentation awareness throughout the organization.
- Establish instrumentation standards and guidelines for the organization.
- Continuously monitor and measure the effectiveness of instrumentation efforts and adjust strategies accordingly.
- Maintain a clear and comprehensive documentation of instrumentation configurations, and make it accessible to the entire team.
- Continuously evaluate and improve instrumentation configurations for new features and added complexity.
- Demand accountability for instrumentation efforts, and ensure that developers are held responsible for the accuracy and reliability of instrumentation.
- Prioritize instrumentation that provides the most value to the organization, and focus efforts on the most critical components.
- Instrumentation should provide visibility into application performance, detect and diagnose issues, and inform optimization efforts.