A system cannot be managed effectively unless its condition can be observed.
Operational visibility designed with the system, not after it: what is measured, how signals are collected and correlated, who is alerted, and what each audience needs to see.
Monitoring should provide visibility across:
Condition and capacity are tracked over time, so that trends such as storage growth surface well before they become incidents.
Infrastructure monitoring may include:
A server can be healthy while the application on it is not. Application signals show what users and dependent systems actually experience.
Application monitoring may include:
Time synchronisation comes before correlation: events from different systems can only be ordered if their clocks agree.
Log management should include:
Alerts should be:
Poorly configured monitoring creates excessive alerts without improving operations.
Each audience gets the view that supports its decisions; one crowded screen for everyone serves none of them.
Dashboards should be designed for different users:
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