DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability (2018)

2h 12mIntermediate2018-05-24

Authors

Ernest Mueller

Director of Engineering at Six Nines IT

Peco Karayanev

Experienced Product Manager

Course details

Monitoring is a key practice area of modern operations. In this course, explore techniques and tools for monitoring from a DevOps mindset. Instructors Ernest Mueller and Peco Karayanev spell out what monitoring is, what's unique about the DevOps approach to monitoring, and how to model your system so monitoring makes sense in context. Next, they examine the different types of monitoring instrumentation, including how to implement synthetic monitoring, end user monitoring, system monitoring, and network monitoring. They also cover best practices for architecting systems for observability and share how to overcome common obstacles.

Learning objectives
What is monitoring?
Understanding the DevOps approach to monitoring
Types of monitoring instrumentation
Implementing software metric monitoring
Implementing application monitoring
Implementing log monitoring
Visualizing your monitors
Handling common monitoring challenges

Skills covered

Software AdministrationDevOps FoundationsServer AdministrationDevOpsFoundationsNetwork AdministrationNetwork and System Administration

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know

1. Monitoring Basics

03 - What is monitoring
04 - Observability in a DevOps world
05 - Monitoring - What does it all mean
06 - Monitoring - Math is required
07 - Modeling your system

2. Types of Monitoring Instrumentation

08 - Our monitoring system
09 - Synthetic monitoring - Is it up
10 - Synthetic monitoring in action
11 - End user monitoring - What do users see
12 - End user monitoring instrumentation
13 - End user monitoring in action
14 - System monitoring - See the box
15 - System monitoring in action
16 - Network monitoring
17 - Software metrics - What's that doing
18 - Software metrics in action
19 - Application monitoring
20 - Application monitoring in action
21 - Log monitoring
22 - Log monitoring in action

3. Monitoring Technique

23 - Implementing monitoring
24 - Using monitors - Visualization
25 - Using monitors - Alerting
26 - Monitoring challenges

Conclusion

27 - Next steps