Practical Monitoring: Effective Strategies for the Real World

by Mike Julian

Unless you have a specific reason to alert on OS metrics, stop doing it.

that pull-based is always a bad idea, but I believe it’s more nuanced

Monitoring is the action of observing and checking the behavior and outputs of a system and its components over time.

Here’s the problem with severity levels: you set them based on the assumption that everything is working fine.

SNMP is an archaic pain in the rear, but it’s what we’ve got.