7 Cloud operations
This chapter covers
- How to manage incidents
- Health monitoring and alerts
- Governance and usage tracking
So far in this book, we have focused on the happy path of our cloud-native setup, covering the signal sources, telemetry, and destinations to store, query, visualize, and interact with the signals to understand and influence the system. In this chapter, we will discuss an aspect of cloud-native solutions I call cloud operations, which spans several topics you will likely come across, especially in an operations role.
We start off with incidents: how to detect when something is not working the way that it should, react to abnormal behavior, and learn from previous mistakes. Then, we focus on alerts, or alarms (I’m using these ...
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