#74 – Monitoring: Why, and How?

In this episode, we talk about Monitoring, what is it about, what to consider in a project roadmap, how to do it and its different types with our guests..

Guests

• Boualaid Zakaria
• Abderrahim Ouakki
• Aboullaite Mohammed

Notes

0:02 – Introduction.

0:05 – What is Monitoring?

0:08 – When should monitoring take place?

0:11 – What do we need to monitor ?

0:22 – How we define KPIs – The indicators we need to keep an eye on.

0:25 – How to say that a resource is behaving normally?

0:43 – Monitoring Toolchain (ELK Stack , Prometheus and Grafana)

0:59 – What are the different types of monitoring ?

1:06 – Infrastructure Monitoring vs Application Monitoring

1:14 – What is Observability and how it differs from Monitoring ?

1:17 – What are the big benefits of cloud monitoring solutions VS in house monitoring solutions

1:23 – With the increase in compressed application life cycles, proper monitoring is critical in DevOps. How can we deal with it?

1:40 – Datadog demo

1:50 – Wrap up and goodbye.

Links

• Distributed Systems Observability – Book
• DatadogHQ
• Leboncoin test env

Prepared and Presented by

• Meriem Zaid
• Otmane Fettal