Engineering teams are very used to talking about their tech stack as the technologies and tools used to build their application. Monitoring also has a stack, and full-stack monitoring is when you align each layer of your tech stack with a monitoring practice and weave a thread from every layer. True code-to-cloud visibility is only accomplished with full-stack monitoring, and necessary for long-term DevOps success.

Dave McAllister and Chris Riley are DevOps Advocates at Splunk. Follow them on Twitter at @dwmcallister and @hoardinginfo.