More than 1.55 million room nights are reserved on the Booking.com platform every day. It’s a staggering amount of traffic, and not surprisingly, the Amsterdam-based travel e-commerce company has a lot of knowledge to share about handling metrics at scale.

Today we are going to talk about logs, quantitative metrics, and how to observe them in order to increase the team reaction rate and reduce the system waiting time in case of an incident.

An effort to create an open standard for transmitting metrics at scale, with support for both text representation and Protocol Buffers.

Critical but oft-neglected service metrics that every SRE and product owner should care about.