Chapter 11: Best Practices and Conclusion

In the previous chapter, we talked about the monitoring of networking services. We started by talking about the fundamentals of networking and all the different key aspects to understand basic networking. Then, we went further to talk about some AWS network services and then looked at monitoring for some select AWS services.

This chapter is the concluding chapter of this book. We shall be talking about best practices and techniques for monitoring. Monitoring is usually an afterthought in application development and deployment operations. But application logs and metrics become important when there are any performance issues noticed or there is downtime – everyone turns to monitoring and logging. But if there is not a proper process for how to set up monitoring in your organization, then it is going to be more difficult to have that information readily available when you need it.

In this chapter, we shall be talking about the best...