August 2022
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
24h 7m
English
Dashboard Basics
Dashboards can serve a useful function in an operations center. Often, operations teams use traditional, commercial management tools and their web-based portals in a kiosk mode as a quick analog to a dashboard. Sometimes their metrics do not map to the priority metrics needed to run the business or glean new insights into its operation. By embracing DevOps principles, sometimes complemented with some open-source projects, you can create dashboards that reflect your specific purpose.
You are encouraged to use commercially available solutions where available and appropriate. There is little reason to reinvent the wheel to obtain common metrics such as CPU, memory, interface, error rates, and client MAC addresses. However, ...