June 10 2021 10:45 am June 10 2021 11:15 am America/Los_Angeles Instrumenting for Game Servers Honeycomb can help you understand how unfamiliar systems actually behave, regardless of what you know about them upfront. I'm an engineer at Honeycomb and I host dedicated gameservers as a side hobby... Virtual Meet
TRACK 2: Mysteries Solved
Thursday, June 10 2021 10:45 am - 11:15 am PT

Instrumenting for Game Servers

Honeycomb can help you understand how unfamiliar systems actually behave, regardless of what you know about them upfront. I'm an engineer at Honeycomb and I host dedicated gameservers as a side hobby. When I decided to run a few gameservers on Kubernetes, I was partially motivated by wanting to learn more about how container orchestration platforms work and how to tune them for the performance I needed.

In this talk, I'll cover the Honeycomb Kubernetes agent, including installation and usage, and how to diagnose issues by asking the correct questions about container platform behavior. You'll learn about patterns that help you address and triage issues with applications that run various workloads such as game servers, frontend services, and APIs) on Kubernetes.