Alerting – Network Monitoring and Incident Management

Alerting is the last pending component of our recommended observability stack, and we aim to deepen your understanding of how alert mechanisms function in the context of network monitoring and incident management. Having laid the groundwork in previous chapters on data collection, enrichment, and visualization within your network infrastructure, we now turn our focus to the operationalization of this data through alerting strategies.

Alerting serves as an essential bridge between the passive observation of metrics and the active response to anomalies detected within the infrastructure. Most modern monitoring solutions incorporate some form of alerting capability, either natively or through integration with external alerting systems. The alerting component plays an important role in sending the events it captures through various channels, including, but not limited to, email, messaging systems, such as Slack and Microsoft...