October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 20m
English
In the SRE book from Google, there are two types of monitoring defined:
This is generally accepted by everyone, leading to a solid amount of tools that are clearly differentiated around whitebox and blackbox monitoring.
One of the best comparisons I've ever heard on whitebox versus blackbox monitoring is the diagnosis of a bone fracture. When you first go to the doctor, he/she only has access to your blackbox metrics:
Then, once the initial diagnoses has been pronounced, the next step is getting X-rays from the area. Now we can confirm whether the bone is broken and, if it is, what is the impact in the system. The X-rays ...
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