{"id":10108,"date":"2019-02-24T02:16:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=10108"},"modified":"2019-03-14T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:30:42","slug":"infrastructure-monitoring-defense-against-surprise-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/02\/24\/infrastructure-monitoring-defense-against-surprise-downtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure monitoring: Defense against surprise downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A strong monitoring and alert system based on open source tools prevents problems before they affect your infrastructure.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Infrastructure monitoring is an integral part of infrastructure management. It is an IT manager’s first line of defense against surprise downtime. Severe issues can inject considerable downtime to live infrastructure, sometimes causing heavy loss of money and material.<\/p>\n

Monitoring collects time-series data from your infrastructure so it can be analyzed to predict upcoming issues with the infrastructure and its underlying components. This gives the IT manager or support staff time to prepare and apply a resolution before a problem occurs.<\/p>\n

A good monitoring system provides:<\/p>\n

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  1. Measurement of the infrastructure’s performance over time<\/li>\n
  2. Node-level analysis and alerts<\/li>\n
  3. Network-level analysis and alerts<\/li>\n
  4. Downtime analysis and alerts<\/li>\n
  5. Answers to the 5 W’s of incident management and root cause analysis (RCA):\n