Logs
Centralised collection and analysis of your application and system logs.
ElasticDynatrace
Available · Freelance · Paris region
Martin LEKPA,
Tech Lead and Trainer in Observability
I design and teach observability with an SRE / DevOps approach. I make your systems visible, measurable and reliable through logs, metrics and traces.
Founder and President of RousselTM, an IT consulting and training company.
Dynatrace
Elastic
Prometheus
Ansible
Docker
OpenShift
INFO collector logs ingested OK INFO prometheus scrape targets 42/42 up WARN latency p99 > 800ms alert TRACE checkout span 3 → 7 → 12 OK root cause identified OK SLO 99.9 % met
What I do
Observability services
The three pillars of observability, plus automation to industrialise it all.
Metrics
Collection, dashboards and alerts to steer performance and availability.
PrometheusElasticDynatrace
Traces
End-to-end request tracking to quickly locate the cause of a slowdown.
DynatraceElastic
Automation
Industrialised, repeatable and reliable deployment processes.
AnsibleJenkinsVagrant
Tools
My tech stack
Observability
Dynatrace
Grafana
Prometheus
Elastic
Elasticsearch
Logstash
Kibana
Automation & platforms
Ansible
Docker
OpenShift
Jenkins
SaltStack
Kafka
Traefik
Packer
Vagrant
GitHub
Expertise level
Skills
Observability90 %
System administration80 %
Automation75 %
Computed over the 6 positions listed below.
Trace · 2011 → today
Professional career
Each position is shown as a span on the timeline of my career.
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Aug 2023 – present
La Poste · Observability Engineer
Implementing observability at platform scale.
DynatraceElasticOpenShiftJenkins -
May 2021 – Jun 2023
MAIF · Observability Engineer
ElasticAnsibleKafkaPrometheus -
Apr 2019 – Jun 2021
AXA · DevOps Engineer
Integrating SaltStack into the deployment process.
SaltStackPackerVagrantAzure DevOps -
Jun 2018 – Apr 2019
Saint-Gobain · DevOps Engineer
Securing and deploying Docker images.
DockerElasticAnsible -
Jun 2012 – May 2018
SFR Business · Systems Engineer
Deploying customer environments.
vCenterSaltStackJenkinsCloudFormsZabbixCentreon / NagiosElastic -
Feb 2011 – May 2012
EDF · Intern, then Systems Engineer
Shared platform offering and cloud solution testing.
Open source & projects
Projects
100,000+
Prometheus exporter for UptimeRobot
Docker image that fetches healthcheck data through the UptimeRobot API and exposes it to Prometheus.
1,900+
UptimeRobot Grafana dashboard
Grafana dashboard that goes with the exporter, downloaded more than 1,900 times.
Open source contributions
Public repositories on GitHub, including a major pull request on docker-bench-security, Docker's official repository.
Shared medical record
Web application for managing medical records, used in Cameroon and Senegal.
Education
Academic background
Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)
Master's degree in knowledge and network management2009 – 2011- École Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications (ESMT)
1st year of an engineering degree in telecommunications and networks2008 – 2009 - École Supérieure Polytechnique (ESP) de Dakar
DUT (two-year technical degree) in telecommunications and networks2006 – 2009
Let's talk
Contact
An observability project, a training course or an audit? Drop me a line.