Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus

Organizational contexts

Looking into an organizational context, roles such as system administrators, quality assurance engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), or product owners have different expectations from monitoring. Understanding the requirements of what each role surfaces makes it easier to comprehend why context is so useful when discussing monitoring. Let's expand the following statements while providing some examples:

• System administrators are interested in high-resolution, low-latency, and high-diversity data. For a system administrator, the main objective of monitoring is to obtain visibility across the infrastructure and manage data from CPU usage to Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request rate so that problems are ...