A primer on effective monitoring practices
Originally posted on Scaleway’s Blog. As Platform Engineers specialized in monitoring and observability solutions, my coworkers and I had the chance to experiment a lot with monitoring practices and tools. Now we would like to share our views on implementing monitoring in a way that allows your product to become more resilient and responsive. Monitoring has a significant impact on your product and its quality. In our experience, naive attempts to implement monitoring systems without the accompanying organizational and cultural shifts that allow teams to compensate for the high costs of monitoring and guarantee that the system in place is aligned with their goals always fail. ...