Monitoring & Observability

Infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, metrics/logs/traces (OpenTelemetry), synthetic monitoring, alerting, and AIOps.

Topics

Lessons

ML-driven alerting, event correlation, automated runbooks

Threshold vs anomaly, alert fatigue reduction, escalation policies

Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics — tracing and profiling

SNMP, Nagios, Zabbix, PRTG, Datadog, SolarWinds

ELK Stack, Splunk, Graylog — centralized log aggregation

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana — three pillars of observability

Uptime checks, RUM, transaction monitoring