Practical Monitoring

Do you have a nagging feeling that your monitoring needs improvement, but you just aren’t sure where to start or how to do it? Are you plagued by constant, meaningless alerts? Does your monitoring system routinely miss real problems?
Mike Julian lays out a practical approach to designing and implementing effective monitoring—from your enterprise application down to the hardware in a datacenter, and everything between. Practical Monitoring provides you with straightforward strategies and tactics for designing and implementing a strong monitoring foundation for your company.
This book takes a unique vendor-neutral approach to monitoring. Rather than discuss how to implement specific tools, Mike teaches the principles and underlying mechanics behind monitoring so you can implement the lessons in any tool.

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Do you have a nagging feeling that your monitoring could be improved, but you just aren't sure how? This is the book for you. Practical Monitoring explains what makes your monitoring less than stellar, and provides a practical approach to designing and implementing a monitoring strategy, from the application down to the hardware in the datacenter and everything in between.

In the world of technical operations, monitoring is core to everything you do. In today's changing landscape of microservices, cloud infrastructure, and more, monitoring is experiencing a new surge of growth, bringing along new methodologies, new ways of thinking, and new tools.

Complete with a primer on statistics and a monitoring vocabulary, this book helps you identify the main areas you need to monitor and shows you how to approach them. It's ideal for operations engineers, system administrators, system and software engineers, site reliability engineers, network engineers, and other operations professionals.

Practical Monitoring covers essential topics including:

Monitoring antipatterns
Principles of monitoring design
How to build an effective on-call rotation
Getting metrics and logs out of your application