Monitoring – metrics and tools

Raj has recently been reading a lot about monitoring. He has found lots of documents on the web pages of their cloud provider, and he has also recovered some of his formal documentation from his time at college. Once all these have been processed and merged, he steps forward to provide his expertise to the team.

Raj: I’ve been reading a lot about what can be monitored. While you were explaining the advantages, something came to my mind from my university classes, so I found this in my old notes.

There was a clever guy who said that if something can be expressed in numbers, and that means objective numbers coming from a system, then you can learn about it and improve it. Conversely, what can’t be expressed in numbers will not provide any sort of useful or satisfactory help. Or something similar, I don’t exactly remember by heart.

Alex: Hey, it’s like my neighbors...