Web Operations: Dashboards, Monitoring, & Alerting — An introduction to cloud monitoring and alerting
This book is for anyone involved in software development who needs some practical tips to kick off their web operations monitoring journey.
If you are wondering which metrics are important, confused about the kind of chart you should add to your dashboards, or want to discover how to find and fix incidents before your customers even know there is a problem; this book can fill those gaps in just a couple of commutes. I’ll explain what metrics to start with, and how you can use a simple process to refine your strategy over time to find metrics that are appropriate to your context.
This book covers the following web operations monitoring fundamentals: • Incident management • Metric collection • Creating dashboards • Selecting metrics • Choosing chart types • Monitoring metrics to detect problems • Raising alarms and sending alerts
Steve Fenton is a Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus Deploy, a DORA Community Guide, and a eight-time Microsoft MVP for developer technologies. He’s a Software Punk, an author, a programming-architect, a pragmatist/abstractionist, and a generalising-generalist. He has written books on TypeScript, Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations Monitoring.