Overview of continuous monitoring
CI and CD result in faster time-to-market. That being said, what if something goes wrong in this automated approach? Do we still need to do manual things or any automated or hybrid approach is available to monitor and manage this automation process?
Another question is what to monitor?
The following points can be some of the factors that needs monitoring:
- Static code analysis – code is not up to the quality gate defined
- Failure of the CI process
- Infrastructure or platform issues where an application needs to be deployed
- Application issues
If we observe properly, then it is all about notifications, infrastructure management, and application monitoring. We already configured notifications in VSTS for alerts and notifications in case of build or release failures. Let's see how we can monitor and manage Azure Web Apps or Azure App Service.
Continuous monitoring not only helps us identify the issue or find the main cause of issue, but it also helps to fix issues to keep...
