A Lean Cloud Monitoring Checklist

Ernest Mueller @ernestmueller

Lean Approach

• Build - Minimum Viable Monitoring• Measure - All the Monitoring Points• Learn - About the App and the Monitoring• Repeat - Go Deeper Where It’s Needed

Monitoring MVP Areas

• Service Performance and Uptime• Software Component Metrics• System Metrics• Application Metrics

Service Performance and Uptime

The end user view is the most important.

MVP: Global synthetic probe of the end service– “Is it up?”

Did you say

“probe?”

Software Component Metrics

What you can page people on.

MVP: Local probes, “nagios style.” Uptime via ports and processes, but dynamic.

I’m pretty sure you said “probe.”

System Metrics

Diagnose issues quickly.

MVP: System metrics, “Zabbix style” – but you need usage and system size in context.

Application Metrics

Business value and troubleshooting specifics.

MVP: Log them and crunch the logs.

Advanced Add-Ons• RUM• App Container APM• Network APM• Warehousing, Analysis, Visualization• Clever Velocity Trix

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