Advanced monitoring tools
The purpose behind monitoring has always been to make sure that the things you said were working are still working. And it is often the case that they won’t be. It could be your fault or not; the concept of fault gets in the way of solving the problem. The proper monitoring of your workloads provides the path to more easily solving your problems.
The simplest workloads can be monitored and the reactions to the information received can be automated so that you don’t even have to be involved most of the time when it comes to dealing with something going wrong. In more complex workloads, it is still important to keep up monitoring for faster reaction times to any situation, as well as to get more information on the situation in real time.
Often, your solution, as it gets more complex, starts using more tools. More tools and services means the requirement for more monitoring and also more complex monitoring. If your monitoring comes from multiple...