Monitoring the production environment
Monitoring the production environment allows us to understand whether the NFRs of the environment are still being maintained as well as whether new functionality deployed as features are functional and performing based on the constraints identified in NFRs.
There are a few practices that are instrumental in providing continuous monitoring. Let’s examine what these practices are and how to ensure that they are established in our production environment.
Full-stack telemetry
We need to monitor at various levels important measurements of our solution for a number of reasons. At the lower levels, we want to ensure that our production environment is stable and in no danger of failure. As we move to look at our system at higher levels, we want to ensure that we have measurements that allow us to determine whether our business hypothesis that started the development can be proven. Ultimately, at the business level, the measurements we take...