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Implementing Modern DevOps
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Implementing Modern DevOps

by David Gonzalez, Danny Varghese
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Blackbox monitoring

Whitebox monitoring is the type of monitoring that observes a system from outside without having to look into how the system is built. These metrics are the first ones that impact the users and the first external symptoms that something is going wrong in our application or server.

Among the metrics that can be used for blackbox monitoring, we can find the following ones:

  • Latency
  • Throughput

These two metrics are the holy grail of blackbox monitoring.

The latency is, by definition, how long takes our system to respond. If we are looking at an HTTP server, from the very first time that we sent the request to the time when the server on the other side of the line replies is what we understand as latency. This metric is a ...

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