Scenario
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Story of a company called as LearningThoughts. They have hired an engineer to monitor their datacenters (Don)
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Don had installed monitoring agent and he used to perform checks
- Is server alive
- Is application runnning on server
- Free space, memory usage and other metrics
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And Don also had configured alerts to support systems 24×7
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Now Learning Thoughts started working in cloud and also the number of projects increased and also number of hosts were also increased
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Challenges
- Amount of data asked by business was growing
- Logs of the applications needed to collection for performing analytics so that Learning Thought can predict/suggest to their customers
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Monitoring Systems have two customers
- Business
- IT Team
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Monitoring Systems will have following stages
- Manual, user-intitiate
- Reactive
- Proactive
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Types of Monitoring
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Application Monitoring
- Application Performance Management
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Tools to Perform Monitoring
- Nagios
- Elastic Stack (Application Monitoring, APM)
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Along with these tools we would determine observability
Next Steps
- Ensure you have cloud account (AWs/azure free tier account) Refer Here for azure and here for aws
- Install softwares as mentioned over here
