Chapter 1, Monitoring Fundamentals

1. A consensual definition of monitoring is hard to come by because it quickly shifts from industry or even in job-specific contexts. The diversity of viewpoints, the components comprising the monitoring system, and even how the data is collected or used, are all factors that contribute to the struggle to reach a clear definition.
2. System administrators are interested in high resolution, low latency, high diversity data. Within this scope, the primary objective of monitoring is so that problems are discovered quickly and the root causes identified as soon as possible.
3. Low resolution, high latency, and high diversity data.
4. It depends on how broad you want to make the monitoring definition. Within the scope of this book, logging is not considered monitoring.
5. The monitoring service's location needs to be propagated to all targets. Staleness is...