Operational excellence is determined by proactive monitoring and quickly responding to recover in the case of an event. By understanding the operational health of a workload, it is possible to identify when events and responses impact it. Use tools that help understand the operational health of the system using metrics and dashboards. You should send log data to centralized storage and define metrics to establish a benchmark.
By defining and knowing what a workload is, it is possible to respond quickly and accurately to operational issues. Use tools to automate responses to operational events supporting various aspects of your workload. These tools allow you to automate responses for operational events and initiate their execution in response to alerts.
Make your workload components replaceable, so that rather than fixing the issue you can improve recovery time by replacing failed components with known good versions. Then, analyze the failed resources...
