---
title: Monitorama 2016 Recap
published: "2016-08-01"
publisher: Honeybadger
author: Sophia Le
category: DevOps articles
tags:
  - Conferences
description: "Our co-founder and resident human exception tracker, Josh, recently went to Monitorama 2016. He brought back goodies to share with our team!"
url: "https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/monitorama-recap/"
---

Our co-founder and resident human exception tracker, Josh, recently went to Monitorama 2016. He brought back goodies to share with our team! Here are a few highlights:

### Monitoring is Dead: Long Live Monitoring

Greg tackles the question everyone wants to know: What is monitoring? He breaks it down by calling it "an action of observing and checking the behavior and outputs of a system and its components over time." To add to the complexity, he also defines the terms of "systems" and "components," amongst others. Greg, I don't know you, but my academic heart loves you for this. Let's get pizza and do a literature review of distributed systems research.

The most interesting part is towards the conclusion, where he defines DevOps as a collaboration with other engineers. He proposes that monitoring is a part of building software, like test-driven development for production.

Here the full talk. Keep a pad of paper handy for notes.

[Monitorama PDX 2016 - Greg Poirier - Monitoring is Dead. Long Live Monitoring](https://vimeo.com/173610062) from [Monitorama](https://vimeo.com/monitorama) on [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com).

### MonitoringScape

The monitoring world is full of tools. How do you know which are complimentary to one another to build a monitoring strategy? Lucky for us, BigPanda summed it up in this awesome graphic.

![BigPanda monitoring scape overview](https://www.honeybadger.io/images/2016/08/big-panda-monitoring-scape.jpg)

For more reading about the different monitoring tools, make sure to check out [MonitoringScape](https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/) for the full-sized graphic and a ton of information on the differences between each tool.

If you need a recommendation for an error tracker, [we know of one that's pretty badass](https://www.honeybadger.io/plans/).

### Dinner at Andina

Okay, Josh couldn't share that one and we were a little jealous. But he also was on-call, got a maelstrom of alerts at 3 am, and didn't sleep that night. We can call it even.

### We Loved Monitorama 2016

If you want to geek out over monitoring, make sure to check out the [rest of the talks](https://vimeo.com/monitorama/videos). Make sure to let us know which was your favorite! We are always happy to geek out via [Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/honeybadgerapp).

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