Instrumenting Go (Gopherconindia Lightning talk by Bhasker Kode)

panic/recover try/catch? monitoring

existing patterns abstractions statsd/statsite metrics

instrumenting go

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#metrics #erlang #golang #clojure

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• 0 exp in go to crawler running 24/7 in production in 30 days. push data into kafka(read data from kafka via storm)

• learnt a lot reading from great golang repos: coreos/hashicorp/docker code bases

Instrument channel data & panics

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counters gauges timers unique

how to start instrumenting go

Instantiate the client

counter eg: requests

gauge eg: speedometer

Try & TryCatch(“crawl.site1”, ….)Try running this function

Log a metric if it fails

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Usage: TryFunc(“crawl.site1”,…) go TryFunc(“crawl.site1”,…)

quipo/statsd channel traffic panics grafana

udp only alphanumeric underscore dot

in conclusion…

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@bhaskerkode

go go go

#metrics #erlang #golang #clojure

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instrumenting today

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