Lawrence Hecht article about monitoring. Monitoring is not a new concept, but a lot has changed about the systems that need monitoring.
With the current prevalence of automated systems, users often want to reduce the time needed to setup a monitoring tool and trying to find the problem in their stack. To understand how to monitor containers and their related infrastructure, article helps you understand what is different about containers.
Topics covered:
- Ephemerality and Scale of Containers
- Proliferation of Objects, Services and Metrics to Track
- Services Are the New Focal Point
- More Diverse Group of Monitoring End-Users
- New Mindset, New Methods
- Approaches to Address the New Reality
- Finding the Most Relevant Metrics
Links to further resources and articles detailing the different components of an effective monitoring stack provided.
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