While Grafana gives us a great start to monitoring our container operations, it is still a work in progress. In the real world of operations, having a complete dashboard view is great once we know there is a problem. However, in everyday scenarios, we'd prefer to be proactive and actually receive notifications when issues arise. This kind of alerting capability is a must to keep the operations team ahead of the curve and out of reactive mode.
There are many solutions available in this space, and we will take a look at two in particular: GCE monitoring (Stackdriver) and Sysdig.
Stackdriver is a great place to start for infrastructure in the public cloud. It is actually owned by Google, so it's integrated as the Google Cloud Platform monitoring service. Before your lock-in alarm bells start ringing, Stackdriver also has solid integration with AWS. In addition, Stackdriver has alerting capability with support for notification to a variety of...
