posted on 2019-05-15, 00:26authored byRichard Procter
REANNZ built TSX, a system that gives us accurate, long-term network performance metrics by
abstracting away the continual changes to our network. It builds upon ideas found in the opensource Prometheus monitoring system.
In 2018, we coupled TSX to Prometheus in order to glean significant needles from our data
haystack of sixty thousand metrics in near real-time. This has, for example, allowed us to
proactively identify and replace ailing equipment before it fails, increasing the reliability of our
network.
We will show TSX in action, how it has untangled our raw data store, and is now providing rich
graphical reporting in both near-real-time and from our collection of over 5 years and nearly 2TB
worth of recorded data.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Richard Procter joined REANNZ in 2016 as a senior software engineer with a
fifteen year background in commercial programming that spans telco-grade switching
systems, open source network stacks, automated network design, and award-winning
application development. At REANNZ he is responsible for network monitoring, network
statistics and software practices.