Production IT Systems - Monitoring and Alerting
Introduction Monitoring gives insight into an application, that how it is working, is there any problem and where is the problem. When people working with an application know to answers of these questions, they will be able to successfully operate the application, help their customers and keep up the business. Application monitoring is a paradigm of design that initiates with the start of design/ architecture phase. A well designed application is well equipped with self-monitoring capabilities and placeholders for other monitors to plugin into it. The goal of application monitoring is to reduce MMTK (mean time to know) and thus MTTR (mean time to recover). Depending on cases monitoring can also extend to capabilities of predictive fault assessment and therefor enabling provisions for preventive measurements. So the big three questions monitoring answers are: How the application is working? Is there any problem in any component of ...