I want to convince you that...
Clunky user interfaces
Verbose configuration
Long check intervals
Host centric world view
A tweet
an IRC room
A Twitter hashtag
A github repository
(really really want)
Metrics and graphs
System AND Business Data
Logstreams
APIs
Alerts
Dashboards
(Just a quick sample)
Naming things (is hard)
Sharing setups
Low latency message based tools
Monitoring == Testing
Monitoring unit tests
monitors.txt
JSON example
Monitoring system agnostic
Graphite
GDash
statsd
Ruby counter
Java counter
Logster
Point at log files
Get metrics in Ganglia or Graphite
Graylog2
Logstash
Configuration management
Automate checks
Defined outside monitoring systems
Automate graylog collection
Automate logster collection
or Configuration Management
(pay nice people for software)
New Relic
New Relic Dashboard
Librato metrics
Librato graphs
Splunk
Splunk dashboard
PagerDuty
PagerDuty scheduler
Boundary
Network traffic analyses
(if all you remember is)
Admit we have a problem
Lots of links