Chapter 7: Monitors and Alerts
In the last chapter, we learned how infrastructure is monitored using Datadog. The modern, cloud-based infrastructure is far more complex and virtual than the data center-based, bare-metal compute, storage, and network infrastructure. Datadog is designed to work with cloud-centric infrastructure, and it meets most of the infrastructure monitoring needs out of the box, be it a bare-metal or public cloud-based infrastructure.
A core requirement of any monitoring application is to notify you about an ongoing issue. Ideally, before that issue results in a service outage. In previous chapters, we discussed metrics and how they are generated, viewed, and charted on dashboards. An important use of metrics is to predict ...
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