In today’s era, application performance holds a crucial position in determining the application's success in the long run. No matter how much feature-packed and optimized your application is, it needs to be constantly monitored for smooth functioning of the application. That’s where DevOps monitoring comes into play. DevOps monitoring consists of several monitoring metrics which assist with application monitoring for the proper functioning of the application.
However, without proper guidance, DevOps monitoring can feel too complex to begin with. Here’s your guide to avoid messing up your DevOps monitoring.
Determine your monitoring targets
If you are just starting with DevOps monitoring, your first and foremost strategy should be determining which targets you want to monitor. No matter where it operates, the complete stack should be monitored by modern DevOps teams.
You can divide monitoring targets into several primary categories and each one of them accordingly. These categories include - Server health, application log, system vulnerabilities, user activity, and development milestones.
Leverage continuous monitoring
While there is a lot of talk about Continous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), people seem to forget about Continuous Monitoring (CM). Few businesses apply CM to the whole CI/CD toolchain, monitoring internal processes and tooling to find issues before being released into the open. On the other hand, many others view CM as the final step in the DevOps pipeline.
With proper CM strategy implemented in place, your DevOps team will be well equipped to deal with ongoing incidents by reducing mean time to acknowledge, mean time to recover, and meal time between failures.
Correlate and triage
Data correlation is needed to understand the data. But the problem is - data comes in from different sources, in different time frames at different frequencies. One needs to normalize the data to understand it. Asking questions about data correlation and triage is crucial. You need to ask questions about data and how they relate to business objectives.
Break down silos with metrics
DevOps is designed to break the barrier between Dev and Ops teams and stop the unproductive cycle between them. It can only be feasible if both the teams speak in the same language - metrics. Your monitoring tool should be accessible to everyone who touches the application code.
As monitoring tools encourage sharing of information, dashboards, and logs, it will let people form a collaborative environment between the two core teams. Your monitoring tool should also have a “sandbox feature” for encouraging people to explore and experiment without affecting the existing dashboards.
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