Chapter 11. Monitoring and Measuring

"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it" - Lord Kelvin

Wonderful! If you have reached here, trust me that you know quite a lot about DevOps both from an understanding and implementation perspective. This is the last chapter of this book, and we have covered all the major pillars of DevOps. We have covered the concepts and activities essential for the DevOps implementation and to make it work effectively and efficiently. There are other activities such as automated testing and coded UI tests, that were not covered in this book. They have been amply covered elsewhere on the Internet.

This chapter will discuss at length the concepts and implementation related to monitoring and measuring the different aspects of applications and environments on the production environment. Monitoring and measuring is an important activity within the DevOps life cycle as it helps in capturing the telemetry in real time about the status...