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The shift to remote was an unprecedented challenge for most enterprises and businesses. IT operations had to ramp up quickly to maintain processes and workflows. Monitoring tools play a crucial role in enabling ITOps to do everything they need to analyze and resolve incidents quickly.
Close your eyes and breathe slowly, can you already feel the coolness on the tips of your boots? On the tense phalanges of your hands? The first step is right in front of you. It is a spiral staircase armed with worn ashlars under old voussoirs. The dim light of a chandelier accompanies you. What are you waiting for? Go up! The forbidden book awaits you in the last of the stays, where you will finally find out something about the history of monitoring.
What precisely are the requirements of a DevOps practitioner, as opposed to an SRE, legacy developer, or operations manager? And do those specific requirements require a different approach to monitoring?
If you’re familiar with Telegraf, you know that you can easily configure this lightweight collection agent with a single TOML configuration file to gather metrics from over 180 inputs and write data to a wide variety of different outputs and/or platforms. You might also know that Telegraf can act as a processor, aggregator, parser, and serializer.
The widespread adoption of Agile methodologies in recent years has allowed organizations to significantly increase their ability to push out more high quality software. Previous development practices revolved heavily around centralized applications and infrequent updates that were shipped maybe once a quarter or even once a year.
Mean time to repair (MTTR) is an essential metric that represents the average time it takes to repair and restore a component or system to functionality. It is a primary measurement of the maintainability of an organization’s systems, equipment, applications and infrastructure, as well as its efficiency in fixing that equipment when an IT incident occurs. Key challenges with MTTR arise from just trying to figure out that there is actually a problem.
