Change Management

Managing changes to your workload is important since any of those changes can potentially affect its resiliency. So, to ensure that it can handle changes without impact, you must anticipate, but also monitor and control, those changes. To clarify further, all kinds of changes are being considered here, whether they are made to your application code or they affect the environment where your workload operates (such as, for instance, a surge in demand or a change of OS).

Monitoring Workload Resources

Monitoring is critical to ensure that you keep an eye on your workload’s behavior at all times. It doesn’t mean that you need to have someone watch over a screen 24/7, thankfully.

Logs and metrics are powerful instruments to provide insight into the health of your workload. Firstly, you should make sure to monitor logs and metrics emitted by your workload. Secondly, you should send notifications when thresholds are crossed or significant events hit...