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Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms
No platform owner wants to be told their platform is down by a user. A core responsibility of the platform operating model is ensuring a reliable platform for the organization. In practice, it isn't always easy to detect when things are broken, especially when it falls outside of the traditional metrics coverage.
In our work, we adopted synthetic monitoring using Kuberhealthy, a CNCF project, to gain better visibility into whether the Kubernetes platform is operating as a user would expect. Synthetic monitoring allows us to replicate application developer workflows to validate end-to-end functionality of the platform.
Come and learn about implementing synthetics, how to not break things, and broadly how to improve stability with Kubernetes using synthetic monitoring.
Kate Agnew
Kate Agnew is a Sr Director of Platform Engineering at Marriott, where she manages the enterprise Kubernetes and Service Mesh platform. Prior to Marriott, she held a similar platform leadership role at Optum, and has had multiple other leadership and technology positions at smaller startups and larger organizations. She obtained her BA from Macalester College and MBA from MIT. Outside of work, she serves as a city council member and is passionate about making a positive impact in her community.
David Norton
President
Platformers
David Norton is a founder and principal consultant at Platformers. He has been working in cloud platform engineering since 2016. Prior to that, he worked as an application developer.
David lives in St. Louis Park, MN, and usually enjoys spending time with his family, playing pickleball, and fishing.