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1. Monitoring the Dynamic Cloud
Application Architecture Summit – Feb 23,2017
Lee Atchison ∙ Senior Director Strategic Architecture at New Relic, Inc.
leeatchison@leeatchison

2. We want better apps faster
Better
Data Center
Dynamic Environment
How do we use the cloud to accomplish this?

3. Better Data Center
Better
Data Center
Dynamic Environment

4. Cloud as a “Better Data Center”
Resources are allocated to
uses, just like in a data
center
Provisioning process
is faster
Lifetime of components is
relatively long
Capacity planning is
still important and
still applies

5. Why use a “Better Data Center”?
Add new Capacity
(faster)
Improve Application Availability
(redundancy)
Compliance

6. Who is impacted?
Better Data Center
Can I scale my server fleet?
Can apps run anywhere?
How do they perform in the cloud?
Operations Development
Data center is a data center…

7. Similar to monitoring any other data center…
How do I monitor it?

8. Monitoring an application
• Application & Application Microservices
• Server OS
• Hardware (virtual)
Typical Server / EC2 Instance
EC2 Instance
Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile

9. EC2 Instance
Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile
AWS Monitoring
• Server OS
• Memory / Filesystem
• Processes
• Configuration
• Application
- Latency
- Error rates
• EC2 instance
• Virtualization
• Hardware
• [CPU / Disk / Networking]
CloudWatch
Monitors
Doesn’t know about:
CloudWatch
AWS
CONSOLE

10. EC2 Instance
Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile
CloudWatch
AWS
CONSOLE
DASHBOARDS
New Relic Monitoring
• Virtualization
• How O.S. is performing
• Configuration
• Processes
• Hardware
• App health
• App performance
• Microservices
New Relic
Monitors (Server):
Monitors (Application):
Doesn’t know
New Relic
Application
Monitoring
New Relic
Infrastructure
Monitoring

11. EC2 Instance
Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile
CloudWatch
AWS
CONSOLE
DASHBOARDS
New Relic
Application
Monitoring
New Relic
Infrastructure
Monitoring
AWSNew Relic Monitoring
• Visibility into virtualization
• CPU / Disk / Networking
• CPU / Disk / Networking
• Memory / Filesystem
• Processes
- Infrastructure components
• Application / Microservices:
- Latency
- Error rates
- App insights
AWS / CloudWatch
New Relic
New Relic
Monitors
CloudWatch
monitors

12. Dynamic Cloud
Better
Data Center
Dynamic Environment

13. Cloud as a “Dynamic Tool for Dynamic Apps”
Use Only the Resources
you need

14. Cloud as a “Dynamic Tool for Dynamic Apps”
Use Only the Resources
you need
Allocate / de-allocate
resources on the fly

15. Cloud as a “Dynamic Tool for Dynamic Apps”
Use Only the Resources
you need
Allocate / de-allocate
resources on the fly
Resource allocation is an
integral part of your
application architecture

16. Dynamic Cloud
Resources are: Application in charge:
Allocated Application is aware of and is controlling
traditional OPs resources
Consumed De-allocated

17. Dynamic Usage Example…
Docker Container Age
(Count vs. Hours)
1 Hour
200 days 833 days

18. Dynamic Usage Example…
Docker Container Age
(by Minute and Hour)
1,200,000
11% underone minute
Container age (minutes)

19. Dynamic Cloud Technologies
Dynamic Cloud is about scaling
EC2 Auto Scaling
Mobile / IoT Dynamic routing
Load balancing
Queues and notifications
Docker

20. Dynamic Cloud has unique monitoring requirements…
How do I monitor the Dynamic Cloud?

21. What is a Dynamic Cloud Application?
• Application & Application Microservices
Responsible for the parts you care about
• Infrastructure
• Allocation/Provisioning
• Scaling
Let cloud manage rest
Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
Provisioning
Application &
Application
Microservices
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile

22. Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
Provisioning
Application &
Application
Microservices
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile
Monitoring Dynamic Cloud Applications
DASHBOARDS
AWS
CONSOLE
CloudWatch

23. Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
Provisioning
Application &
Application
Microservices
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile
AWS InfrastructureNew Relic work together
CloudWatch
AWS
CONSOLE
New Relic
Application
Monitoring
New Relic
Infrastructure
Monitoring
DASHBOARDS

24. Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
Provisioning
Application &
Application
Microservices
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile
CloudWatch
AWS
CONSOLE
New Relic
Application
Monitoring
New Relic
Infrastructure
Monitoring
DASHBOARDS
AWS InfrastructureNew Relic work together
New Relic
Monitors
CloudWatch &
AWS monitors

25. Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
Provisioning
Application &
Application
Microservices
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile
How do you monitor this?
?How do you
monitor this?

26. Where did it go? It was just here!!
The thing you monitored 10 minutes ago…
...doesn’t exist anymore!?

27. Dynamic Cloud
1,200,000
11% underone minute
Docker Container Age
(by Minute and Hour)
Container age (minutes)

28. Monitoring the Dynamic Cloud
Monitor the Cloud Components
themselves
Monitor the lifecycle of the Cloud
Components
Very different than monitoring traditional Data Center components

29. Who is impacted?
Better Data Center
Can I scale my server fleet?
Can apps run anywhere?
How do they perform in the cloud?
Operations Development
Data center is a data center…

30. Who is impacted?
Operations DevelopmentDynamic Cloud
What is a container?
Why do I care??
It was just here, where did it go??
Cloud architecture is integral to the
application architecture
*
Developers deeply involved in cloud
activities

31. Changing World
Ops
Previous - STATIC World

32. Changing World
Previous - STATIC World
Ops
Dev
Now - DYNAMIC World
Ops

33. Change is speeding up
Traditional Data Center Cloud Data Center Dynamic Cloud
Dynamic Cloud enables better applications faster.
Good Better Best
The way you’ve done things in the past
won’t work in the future.

34. Dynamic Cloud
Server running application/
processes
Process running
a command
Things happen faster because of…
This is
HARD
EC2 Docker Container

35. Dynamic Cloud
Server running application/
processes
Process running
a command
Function performing a
task or operation
EC2 Docker Container Lambda
Things happen faster because of…

36. The Future with
Lambda

37. Microcomputing & AWS Lambda
• Newest entrance to the “dynamic cloud”
• Provides event driven compute capabilities
• No infrastructure to provision
• Massively shared infrastructure

38. Why use Lambda?
Run in response to a
state change or action in
the cloud
Stateless, “filters”
Perform quick actions
Virtually no startup/shutdown
cost
Lambda scripts

39. AWS Lambda
S3
Bucket
Dynamo
DB
API
Gateway
SQS
RESOURCESSOME
• Takes an event from an AWS
resource (A Trigger)

40. AWS Lambda
S3
Bucket
Dynamo
DB
API
Gateway
SQS
RESOURCESSOME
Lambda
Script
• Takes an event from an AWS
resource (A Trigger)
• Creates an instance
to execute
Lambda
Instance

41. AWS Lambda
S3
Bucket
Dynamo
DB
API
Gateway
SQS
RESOURCESSOME
S3
Bucket
API
Gateway SQS
RESOURCESSOME
Lambda
Script
• Takes an event from an AWS
resource (A Trigger)
• Creates an instance
to execute
• Can impact original or different
AWS Resource
Lambda
Instance

42. AWS Lambda
S3
Bucket
Dynamo
DB
API
Gateway
SQS
RESOURCESSOME
S3
Bucket
API
Gateway SQS
RESOURCESSOME
Lambda
Script
Lambda
Instances
• Takes an event from an AWS
resource (A Trigger)
• Creates an instance
to execute
• Can impact original or different
AWS Resource
• Any number of instances can
run at a time

43. Photo Management App
Lambda example #1

44. Photo management application
Upload
File
• Photos uploaded to S3
S3 Bucket
Image
Import
User

45. Photo management application
Upload
File
S3 Bucket
Image
Thumbnails
View
Thumbnail
• Photos uploaded to S3
• Lambda script creates
thumbnails
S3 Bucket
Image
Import
Lambda
Script
User

46. Photo management application
Image
Database
Upload
File
S3 Bucket
Image
Import
S3 Bucket
Image
Thumbnails
View
Thumbnail
Lambda
Script
• Photos uploaded to S3
• Lambda script creates
thumbnails
• Lambda script updates metadata
in database User
Lambda
Script

47. Photo management application
Application
Upload
File
S3 Bucket
Image
Import
S3 Bucket
Image
Thumbnails
Lambda
Script
App
Interactions
View
Thumbnail
Lambda
Script
• Photos uploaded to S3
• Lambda script creates
thumbnails
• Lambda script updates metadata
in database
• Application only has
to deal with metadata editing,
not photo file management
User
Image
Database

48. Mobile Game App
Lambda example #2

49. • Cloud platform hosts an
API for mobile app
- API Gateway
• Lambda scripts implement the API
• Lambda scripts
manipulate database
• Extremely high scale possible
- No infrastructure
Mobile game platform
API
Gateway
Lambda
Script
Lambda
Script
Lambda
Script
Mobile Phone
Application Users
Database

50. Monitoring Lambda Scripts
Less like infrastructure monitoring /
More like web application monitoring
We Care About We Don’t Care About
• Run time
(average, extremes – TP90/TP99)
• Statistical metrics
• Error rates and other deviations
from norm
• “Drill down” into individual “runs”
• Details about all ”runs”
• Server / infrastructure metrics

51. Monitoring Lambda
More like application performance monitoring than infrastructure monitoring

52. Monitoring Lambda
More like application performance monitoring than infrastructure monitoring

53. Monitoring just the server
EC2 Instance
Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application Microservices
AWS
CONSOLE
CloudWatch
Worked when rate of change was low…

54. Monitoring just the server
• Rate of change is faster
• Problems come up quicker
• “Server” isn’t a server anymore
• “Provisioning” isn’t provisioning anymore
Insufficient in the cloud:
Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
Provisioning
Application &
Application
Microservices
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile

55. Server OS
Server (Virtual)
Hardware
Application &
Application
Microservices
Provisioning
Application &
Application
Microservices
Application &
Application
Microservices
BrowserMobile
New Relic – Full Stack Monitoring
New Relic
Application
Monitoring
New Relic
Infrastructure
Monitoring
DASHBOARDS
• Top to bottom monitoring…
• Full stack accountability...
• Dynamic infrastructure control...
You need:

56. New Relic enables full stack accountability
between your code & cloud
Customers
On-Premises On Premises
Relational Data
AWS RDS
Synthetic Customers
S3
Service API
EC2
NoSQL
Browser / Mobile / Apps
Data Driven Digital Business
Customer Experience Mgmt Application Performance Mgmt Dynamic Infrastructure Mgmt

57. Thank you
Lee Atchison ∙ Senior Director Strategic Architecture at New Relic.
leeatchison@leeatchison
Architecting for Scale
By: Lee Atchison
Published by: O’Reilly Media
www.architectingforscale.com

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