Practical Monitoring

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• active users, Business KPIs
• agents, Monitoring Is Multiple Complex Problems Under One Name
• alert fatigue, Delete and Tune Alerts
• alerts/alerting, Alerting, Alerts, On-Call, and Incident Management-Attempt Automated Self-Healing First
  • arbitrary static thresholds and, Arbitrary Static Thresholds Aren’t the Only Way
  • assessment example, Alerting
  • auto-healing, Attempt Automated Self-Healing First
  • defining, What Makes a Good Alert?
  • desensitization to, Delete and Tune Alerts
  • email for, Stop Using Email for Alerts
  • flapping detection, Before Statistics in Systems Operations
  • linking alerts to runbooks, Write Runbooks
  • logging, Stop Using Email for Alerts
  • maintenance period use for, Use Maintenance Periods
  • with Nagios, Before Statistics in Systems Operations
• Amazon, The Cost of a Slow App
• analytics and reporting, Analytics and Reporting-Analytics and Reporting
• anti-patterns, Monitoring Anti-Patterns-Wrap-Up
  • checkbox monitoring, Anti-Pattern #3: Checkbox Monitoring-Collect Your Metrics More Often
  • manual configuration, Anti-Pattern #5: Manual Configuration
  • monitoring as a crutch, Anti-Pattern #4: Using Monitoring as a Crutch
  • monitoring-as-a-job, Anti-Pattern #2: Monitoring-as-a-Job
  • tool obsession, Anti-Pattern #1: Tool Obsession-The Single Pane of Glass Is a Myth
• APM tools, Monitoring Is Multiple Complex Problems Under One Name, Monitoring Is Multiple Complex Problems Under One Name, Instrumenting Your Apps with Metrics
  • (see also StatsD)
• app speed, The Cost of a Slow App-The Cost of a Slow App
• application monitoring ...