Monitoring
Monitoring and Analytics: How it helps
An interesting topic for today is the types of DevOps monitoring. By monitoring your system, DevOps services providers guard of your good night’s sleep and your business reputation.
To many, monitoring in DevOps is synonymous with uptime monitoring. However, it is much more complex. So let’s outline a few types of monitoring in DevOps to see what exactly DevOps Practitioners monitor.
System performance monitoring
Definitely, when describing types of monitoring in DevOps, we will start with system performance monitoring. DevOps experts carefully monitor all the aspects that can influence your system performance, such as CPU utilization, free memory (RAM), disk space used, network utilization, and more.
Hardware health monitoring
Next on the list of monitoring types is hardware health monitoring. Just like your brain relies on your body, hardware health is indispensable for your system’s work. So things like HDD health (RAID state, SMART values), CPU temperature, and others are regularly checked.
Service monitoring
An important mission for DevOps is monitoring the availability and performance of services (Mail, FTP, Database, and more). They also check web server processes, web server states, and so on.
System security control and audit
In many cases, viruses or malware are the reason for poor performance or complete system failure. So DevOps regularly checks files for malware and possible network attacks. In their work, they use firewalls and application level detectors (Fail2ban, Apache ModSecurity, and so on).
Third-party integration monitoring
In the era of third-party integration, it is necessary to outline API monitoring. DevOps experts check API availability and performance, so your system can smoothly cooperate with third-party systems.