Summary

Managing your Salesforce environments, which include both metadata and data, is a crucial aspect of Salesforce DevOps. This chapter emphasized the importance of monitoring your environments, not only for the sake of maintaining stability and integrity but also for understanding and overseeing changes across every aspect of your Salesforce orgs.

We started by discussing the need for monitoring, detailing how uncontrolled changes can lead to instability and how automated change control can help maintain order. Then, we explored different types of monitoring, including metadata monitoring, data monitoring, posture monitoring, and operational monitoring.

We dove deep into the specifics of metadata monitoring, discussing the importance of monitoring metadata in production and sandbox environments, and the various tools and methods you can use to do so. We also touched upon the need for monitoring data behavior, including configuration data, data anomalies, data quality, and...