Continuous Monitoring

Continuous Monitoring is the practice of tracking key metrics and data about an application or system on an ongoing basis. The goal of Continuous Monitoring is to enable teams to identify issues or opportunities for improvement in near real-time.

Some common things that are monitored continuously include:

• Application performance - Tracking response times, error rates, and throughput. This helps detect problems or degradation.

• Infrastructure/host metrics - Monitoring CPU, memory, disk usage, etc. Allows optimizing resources and predicting capacity needs.

• Logs - Centralizing and analyzing logs to identify errors, security events, usage patterns.

• User experience - Synthetics monitoring simulates user transactions to test functionality and performance. Real user monitoring tracks real user journeys.

• Business metrics - Tracking key business or product metrics to understand usage and outcomes.

The data from Continuous Monitoring flows into dashboards and alerts. This enables rapid notification of issues so teams can respond quickly. It also provides insights over time to guide improvement efforts. Overall, Continuous Monitoring provides greater visibility into systems and allows more proactive management.