Theory

  1. Deploying Monitoring Services
    • Prometheus is an open-source tool to collect and store time-series data on its CPU, memory, and GPU utilization.
    • Grafana is utilized to showcase data from Prometheus via dashboards.
    • NVIDIA DCGM: Specifically designed for checking the performance of the GPU, its memory, temperature, and design load.
    • Facilitates proactive management through real-time alerts.
    • Aids in enhancing resource distribution and lowering operational expenses.
    • Provides insights for scaling and capacity planning.
  2. Setting Up Jupyter Environments
    • Jupyter environments offer interactive computing for data activities like exploration, model building, and analysis in notebooks supporting Python, R, and Julia.
    • Active Coding: Can run cell-wise for step-by-step run-through.
    • GPU assistance: Taps CUDA and cuDNN to speed up data processing jobs.
    • Extensions let you add plugins for version control (Git), visualization (Plotly), and resource monitor (nbresuse).
    • Multi-user Cluster Environments Using JupyterHub.
    • Simplifies GPU resource management for deep learning tasks.
  3. Adding More Services
    • Logging Services:
      • ELK Stack provides centralized logging, easy-to-use search, and visualization.
      • Fluentd is used to collect logs from different sources.
    • Alerting Systems:
      • PagerDuty helps in responding to incidents.
    • CI/CD Pipelines:
      • Jenkins is used for testing, deploying, and monitoring.
      • GitLab CI/CD has built-in deployment with version control.
    • Service Mesh:
      • Istio manages secure microservices traffic and observability.
    • Makes security, performance, and observability better for systems.
    • Reduces manual overhead for deployment and monitoring.
  4. Key Indicators That Metrics are Useful
    • Usage of CPU and GPU: Computes effectiveness of resource usage.
    • Monitoring Memory and Storage Usage: Aids in bottleneck prevention.
    • Latency and Throughput: Analyzes how effectively service requests are handled.
    • Detection of failures or congestion in service delivery.