Monitoring

Monitoring is the process of observing and tracking the health, performance, and availability of applications, infrastructure, and services. Monitoring provides visibility into the status of systems to enable teams to identify and resolve issues quickly.

There are many types of monitoring tools and strategies used in devops and cloud native environments. Metric monitoring collects and analyzes time-series data like CPU usage, request rates, and error counts to detect anomalies. Log monitoring analyzes application and infrastructure logs to identify potential problems. Synthetic monitoring simulates user transactions to test availability and performance from different locations. Tracing monitors the path of a request through distributed services to pinpoint latency issues. Dashboards aggregate monitoring data into views that allow teams to understand the overall health and status at a glance. Alerting notifies teams when defined thresholds are crossed to enable rapid response. Effective monitoring is essential for maintaining highly available, resilient systems and applications.