Monitoring

Monitoring is an important architectural concern that should be part of any solution, big or small, mission-critical or not, cloud-based or not—it should not be neglected.

Monitoring refers to the act of keeping track of solutions and capturing various telemetry information, processing it, identifying the information that qualifies for alerts based on rules, and raising them. Generally, an agent is deployed within the environment and monitors it, sending telemetry information to a centralized server, where the rest of the processing of generating alerts and notifying stakeholders takes place.

Monitoring takes both proactive and reactive actions and measures against a solution. It is also the first step toward auditing a solution. Without the ability to monitor log records, it is difficult to audit a system from various perspectives, such as security, performance, and availability.

Monitoring helps us identify availability, performance, and scalability...