A tale of two Dashboards

Dashboards are horrendous puzzle assembling exercises.

So, here’s a tale of dashboards:

This is a sample dashboard an Engineer put together:

This is Last9 's ChangeBoard:

Before we start, take a minute to look at the dashboard below:

• What do you make of it?
• What does it tell you?
• Any of this makes sense?

You definitely need an expert to decode this.

This is?Last9's ChangeBoard.

Some of this makes sense?

Spend a minute to read everything in the image.

Before proceeding, write down on how much of it you got right. ??

The story:

One of our customers experienced a 5xx spike in a particular service.

The service went from ?? Good —> ?? Bad —> ?? Ugly.

?? Healthy

?? Degradation

?? Failure?

The Last9 ChangeBoard depicts an unusual pattern, by correlating the 5xxs to the previous week.

Simple enough?

At this point, it’s a, “Hey, something is not right” ??

An SLO is broken.

The service must be >99%, but it’s at 95%.

Now, the service has failed. ??

The customer had 2 hours of knowledge about a degradation ??.

We were able to spot and alert this, before a service ultimately failed ??.

Having powerful tools to build correlation, be intuitive, and make knowledge digestible is what makes us different. ??

Check us out? last9.io