Questions

1. Why is monitoring definition so hard to clearly define?
2. Does a high latency of metrics impact the work of a system administrator who's focused on fixing a live incident?
3. What are the monitoring requirements to properly do capacity planning?
4. Is logging considered monitoring?
5. Regarding the available strategies for metrics collection, what are the downsides of using the push-based approach?
6. If you had to choose three basic metrics from a generic web service to focus on, which would they be?
7. When a check verifies whether a given process is running on a host by way of listing the running processes in said host, is that whitebox or blackbox monitoring?