Category Archives: Automation

This is the last in a series of posts to share some techniques that I wrote about in Web Operations Dashboards, Monitoring, and Alerting. In this final bite-size chunk, I’m going to talk about the Monitor Matrix. Selecting monitors has a gradual evolution. You start off monitoring the things that everyone starts monitoring. You keepContinue reading “The Monitor Matrix”

This is one more article in a series of posts to share some techniques that I wrote about in Web Operations Dashboards, Monitoring, and Alerting. In this article, I’m going to talk about Monitor Selection Principles. While it can be tempting to start off by monitoring everything, and alerting every time something slightly odd happens,Continue reading “The Monitor Selection Principles”

This is the next in a series of posts to share some techniques that I wrote about in Web Operations Dashboards, Monitoring, and Alerting. In this instalment, I’m going to talk about the Alerting Principles. When it comes to monitoring alerting is an area you will want to get right. There is a natural tensionContinue reading “The Alerting Principles”

This is another in a series of posts to share some techniques that I wrote about in Web Operations Dashboards, Monitoring, and Alerting. In this article, I’m going to talk about incident investigations and the causations principles. When things go wrong, it may be that some internal trigger such as a software release or configurationContinue reading “The Incident Causation Principles”

This is one of a series of posts to share some techniques that I wrote about in Web Operations Dashboards, Monitoring, and Alerting. In this article, I’m going to talk about the Three Fs of event log monitoring. When you first start collecting event logs, it is likely that you will be inundated with aContinue reading “The Three Fs of Event Log Monitoring”