MesosCon NA 2016

Everyone knows how microservices and containers are revolutionizing the way we deploy applications and maintain our infrastructure. But as many teams are starting to find out, containers still have a key challenge: monitoring and troubleshooting them can be impractical, painful, and sometimes plain impossible. With the rise of microservice based architectures and container orchestration tools such as Mesos and DCOS managing difficult task has become a little bit easier - if you take the right approach.

In this demo-driven presentation, Loris Degioanni will cover the current state of the art of container and microservice monitoring, including the pros and cons of some popular approaches. Using real tools running in live environments, he will demonstrate how to effectively monitor, explore and troubleshoot highly scaled Mesos deployments.

The presentation will feature live interaction with container environments and live demos of all tools and techniques discussed. Special emphasis will be put on using the Mesos portfolio of scheduling and management tools as well as sysdig, an open source container and system troubleshooting tool developed by the presenter.

GitHub link: https://github.com/draios/sysdig

Specific topics will include:
* visualizing the physical vs logical architecture of Mesos & DCOS deployments
* understanding performance at the holistic microservice/application level for orchestrated systems
* Leveraging Mesos metadata such as Master, Slave, Marathon and labels for more intelligent troubleshooting
* extracting process and application-level performance metrics from inside containers using non-intrusive methods
* troubleshooting detailed network activity among distributed containers