January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
16h 56m
English
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Monitoring from the perspective of a site reliability engineer
As we saw in Chapter 1, A Bird's-Eye View of Software Engineering, monitoring the state and performance of software systems is one of the key responsibilities associated with the role of a site reliability engineer (SRE). Before we delve deeper into the topic of monitoring and alerting, we should probably take a few minutes and clarify some of the SRE-related terms that we will be using in the following sections.