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Comment by ggambetta | Hacker News Reader

"Those who cannot remember the Borgmon are doomed to repeat it" ;)

Just kidding, this is looking really good, I hope to get some hands-on experience with it soon.

After working at a job that had a horrible patchwork of monitoring techniques (including at least two in-house systems), I was desperately pining for borgmon, actually. Never thought those words would come out of my mouth.

This does seem to have addressed at least a couple of the issues with that system, in that its config language is sane, and its scrape format is well-defined and typed.

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You mean Borgmon? The Google monitoring system that stopped being a secret years and years ago?

(One example from 2 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/177267/we_are_the_goo...)

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What on earth? Google imposes non disclosure on ex-employees to mention by name in-house monitoring systems? (Presumably Borg-monitor?)

That strikes me as a bit paranoid, not letting the name of a monitoring system be revealed. Am I missing something?

Once I heard a urban legend about a programmer being sued because he was using mickeyMouse as a variable name.

I wouldn't be surprised if many of such cases of non-disclosure are to avoid hungry lawyers for trying to suck some blood out of rich companies. I guess the star trek franchise is owned by Paramount or something like this.

Thank you. I did, in fact, make sure the name and the fact that it is a monitoring system were already public (and from an official source) before mentioning them in this post.

What does that mean?

After seeing the Prometheus query language, I opened the comments looking for this quote :).

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