Chapter 8: Integrating with Platform Components

We learned about monitors and alerts, key elements of a monitoring infrastructure that are central to the 24x7 monitoring of software systems in production, in the last chapter. Earlier in the book, we saw how infrastructure resources, the basic building blocks of any computational environment that runs a software system, are monitored by Datadog.

In Chapter 1, Introduction to Monitoring, we discussed various types of monitoring and briefly mentioned platform monitoring, the monitoring of software and cloud computing components that are used to build the computing platform where application software runs. In a public cloud environment, there are overlaps between infrastructure and platform components ...

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