Nowadays businesses rely heavily on robust and resilient infrastructure to deliver uninterrupted services to their customers. This includes things like servers, databases, and cloud-based systems. It’s important to monitor the health and performance of this infrastructure, and that’s where monitoring metrics come in.
When setting up new monitoring software or migrating, it’s important to have a strong backbone in place for the systems, so you can cover as many services with as little manual burden as possible. Of course, defining the resources – like HTTP, SSH, etc. services or entire host systems – is one of the first things that comes to mind.
I remember as if it was yesterday. I participated at the OSMC 2014 and watched Bernd’s talk “Current state of Icinga”. In the live demo Bernd has showed some of the new things we’ve built. One of them he introduced somewhat hesitantly IMHO.
