Content preview from Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus
- Why is monitoring definition so hard to clearly define?
- Does a high latency of metrics impact the work of a system administrator who's focused on fixing a live incident?
- What are the monitoring requirements to properly do capacity planning?
- Is logging considered monitoring?
- Regarding the available strategies for metrics collection, what are the downsides of using the push-based approach?
- If you had to choose three basic metrics from a generic web service to focus on, which would they be?
- When a check verifies whether a given process is running on a host by way of listing the running processes in said host, is that whitebox or blackbox monitoring?
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