Tag: monitoring

  • The Care and Feeding of Internal Developer Platforms – Five benefits of monitoring and managing internal developer platforms are noted: improved system performance, cost reduction, scalability, enhanced security, and improved feedback loops. Achieving these benefits entails securing deployment environments, establishing system baselines, setting up alerting rules, monitoring application performance, and automating processes.

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  • Link: How to Monitor the SRE Golden Signals

    [Summary from the post of metrics to use:] Rate — Request rate, in requests/sec Errors — Error rate, in errors/sec Latency — Response time, including queue/wait time, in milliseconds. Saturation — How overloaded something is, which is related to utilization but more directly measured by things like queue depth (or sometimes concurrency). As a queue measurement, this becomes non-zero when you are saturated,…

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  • Link: Splunk acquires VictorOps to take it – and you – into site reliability engineering

    “Adding these tools to Splunk’s roster, Mann said, means it can now monitor apps, provide an environment in which to fix them and allow the deeper investigations that figure out root cause of problems and allow re-designs of infrastructure and code to stop them recurring.” Original source: Splunk acquires VictorOps to take it – and…

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  • Link: Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring – Adron Hall

    “key in understanding the difference in monitoring — the combing of data to determine the state or well-being of a system — versus observability — the view into and understanding of the state of events within a system.” Original source: Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring – Adron Hall

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  • Link: Key metrics for RabbitMQ monitoring

    Instructive look at monitoring middleware, metrics and explanation of why you’d do it. Original source: Key metrics for RabbitMQ monitoring

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