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Book Description

Before you can establish great monitoring for your cloud, you have to identify and correct bad habits you may have adopted or observed in your environment. This lesson explains how to watch out for and fix monitoring anti-patterns such as tool obsession, monitoring-as-job, checkbox monitoring, using monitoring as a crutch, and using manual monitoring configuration so that you can foster positive monitoring habits.

Table of Contents

  1. Monitoring anti-patterns
    1. Anti-Pattern #1: Tool Obsession
      1. Monitoring Is Multiple Complex Problems Under One Name
      2. Avoid Cargo-Culting Tools
      3. Sometimes, You Really Do Have to Build It
      4. The Single Pane of Glass Is a Myth
    2. Anti-Pattern #2: Monitoring-as-a-Job
    3. Anti-Pattern #3: Checkbox Monitoring
      1. What Does “Working” Actually Mean? Monitor That.
      2. OS Metrics Aren’t Very Useful—for Alerting
      3. Collect Your Metrics More Often
    4. Anti-Pattern #4: Using Monitoring as a Crutch
    5. Anti-Pattern #5: Manual Configuration
    6. Wrap-Up
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