Monitoring Decoded, Why What and How? in 5 Ignite minutes




Some of the common question engineers have around monitoring are, “Why should I monitor my service?”, “How do I monitor my service?” and “What tools do I use to do this?”. In this talk we will go through some of the key reasons for us to monitor our services and systems. We will then see some methods like the USE(Utilisation, Saturation and Error) and RED(Rate Error Duration) methods that help us identify what to monitor in a consistent manner. Lastly, we will cover some broad classification of tools that help us achieve this including some real examples of monitoring some systems and services at the Financial Times.

Speaker

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Nayana Shetty

 
Nayana Shetty is a Tech Lead at the Financial Times for the Infrastructure Delivery team. Her team provides two major capabilities within FT Technology. They are, hardening Linux operating systems ...