Effective Monitoring and Alerting: For Web Operations - Softcover

Ligus, Slawek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449333524 ISBN 13: 9781449333522

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2012

Synopsis

With this practical book, you’ll discover how to catch complications in your distributed system before they develop into costly problems. Based on his extensive experience in systems ops at large technology companies, author Slawek Ligus describes an effective data-driven approach for monitoring and alerting that enables you to maintain high availability and deliver a high quality of service.

Learn methods for measuring state changes and data flow in your system, and set up alerts to help you recover quickly from problems when they do arise. If you’re a system operator waging the daily battle to provide the best performance at the lowest cost, this book is for you.

Monitor every component of your application stack, from the network to user experience Learn how to draw the right conclusions from the metrics you obtain Develop a robust alerting system that can identify problematic anomalies—without raising false alarms Address system failures by their impact on resource utilization and user experience Plan an alerting configuration that scales with your expanding network Learn how to choose appropriate maintenance times automatically Develop a work environment that fosters flexibility and adaptability

About this title

About the Author

Slawek Ligus works as a consultant and freelance developer, based out of Dublin, Ireland. In the past he held a position of Web Operations Engineer at A9.com, where he contributed to automation of monitoring and infrastructure behind Amazon's powerful search engine.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1449333524
• ISBN 13: 9781449333522
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 164