Tag Archives: monitoring

The Single Pane of Glass

Posted on October 5, 2018 by way0utwest

One of the things that I’ve seen talked about quite in the DevOps movement is a single pane of glass. That phrase seems to be in use to describe a way of quickly understanding the state of your environment. It … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Costs

Posted on September 18, 2018 by way0utwest

I’m a believer in instrumentation and metrics being regularly gathered from your systems. Across the years I’ve built and bought monitoring software to use in various jobs, sometimes in layers where one piece of software uses data from another to … Continue reading →

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Be Prepared with Baselines

Posted on June 11, 2018 by way0utwest

I visited a doctor recently, and he told me a measurement he’d made. I asked if it was good or bad, and he said he had no idea. The value varied too much from person to person, and without values … Continue reading →

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What’s Downtime?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by way0utwest

There was a time when I worked for a company that sold products on-line  Since our wares could be purchased at any time of the day or night, we wanted to ensure that our systems were running all the time. This … Continue reading →

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