July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
13h 58m
English
book
The Site Reliability Workbook
by Betsy Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, David K. Rensin, Kent Kawahara, Stephen Thorne
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Chapter 4. Monitoring
Monitoring can include many types of data, including metrics, text logging, structured event logging, distributed tracing, and event introspection. While all of these approaches are useful in their own right, this chapter mostly addresses metrics and structured logging. In our experience, these two data sources are best suited to SRE’s fundamental monitoring needs.
At the most basic level, monitoring allows you to gain visibility into a system, which is a core requirement for judging service health and diagnosing your service when things go wrong. Chapter 6 in the first SRE book provides some basic monitoring definitions and explains that SREs monitor their systems in order to:
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Alert on conditions that require attention.
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Investigate and diagnose those issues.
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Display information about the system visually.
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Gain insight into trends in resource usage or service health for long-term planning.
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Compare the behavior of the system before and after a change, or between two groups in an experiment.
The relative importance of these use cases might lead you to make tradeoffs when selecting or building a monitoring system.
This chapter talks about how Google manages monitoring systems and provides some guidelines for questions that may arise when you’re choosing and running a monitoring system.
Desirable Features of a Monitoring Strategy
When choosing a monitoring ...
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