Slawek Ligus

Effective Monitoring and Alerting

For Web Operations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book describes data-driven approach to optimal monitoring and alerting in distributed computer systems. It interprets monitoring as a continuous process aimed at extraction of meaning from system's data. The resulting wisdom drives effective maintenance and fast recovery - the bread and butter of web operations.

The content of the book gives a scalable perspective on the following topics:

- anatomy of monitoring and alerting

- conclusive interpretation of time series

- data-driven approach to setting up monitors

- addressing system failures by their impact

- applications of monitoring in automation

- reporting on quality with quantitative means

- and more!

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With this practical book, you'll discover how to catch complications in your distributed system before they develop into costly problems. Based on his extensive experience in systems ops at large technology companies, author Slawek Ligus describes an effective data-driven approach for monitoring and alerting that enables you to maintain high availability and deliver a high quality of service.
Learn methods for measuring state changes and data flow in your system, and set up alerts to help you recover quickly from problems when they do arise. If you're a system operator waging the daily battle to provide the best performance at the lowest cost, this book is for you. Monitor every component of your application stack, from the network to user experience Learn how to draw the right conclusions from the metrics you obtain Develop a robust alerting system that can identify problematic anomalies - without raising false alarms Address system failures by their impact on resource utilization and user experience Plan an alerting configuration that scales with your expanding network Learn how to choose appropriate maintenance times automatically Develop a work environment that fosters flexibility and adaptability

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 179mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9781449333522
• ISBN-10: 1449333524
• Artikelnr.: 36546592

Autorenporträt

Slawek is a systems and software engineer with a background in web operations and service-oriented architectures. He specializes in implementing solutions to tough problems in large-scale information systems. Slawek has been involved in automation of infrastructures and product development, working with leading Internet giants.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Who Should Read This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Monitoring, Alerting, and What They Can Do for You
1.2 Monitoring and Alerting in a Nutshell
1.3 The Challenges
1.4 Important Terms
Chapter 2: Monitoring
2.1 The Building Blocks
2.2 Drawing Conclusions from Timeseries Plots
Chapter 3: Alerting
3.1 The Challenge
3.2 Prerequisites
3.3 Understanding Failure and Its Impact
3.4 Anatomy of an Alarm
3.5 Case Study: A Data Pipeline
3.6 Types of Alerts
3.7 Setting Up Alarms
3.8 Alerting Suggestions
Chapter 4: At Scale
4.1 Implications of Scale
4.2 Composition of Large-Scale Systems
4.3 Commonalities of Large-Scale Alerting Configurations
4.4 Monitoring Coverage
4.5 Managing Large Alerting Configurations
Chapter 5: Monitoring in System Automation
5.1 Choosing Appropriate Maintenance Times Automatically
5.2 Controlling the Rate of Upgrade
5.3 Recovery-Oriented Admission Control
5.4 Automated Deployment and Rollback
Chapter 6: The Work Environment
6.1 Keeping an Audit Trail
6.2 Working with Tickets
6.3 Dealing with Anomalies
6.4 Learning from Outages
6.5 Using Checklists
6.6 Creating Dashboards
6.7 Service-Level Agreements
6.8 Preventing the Ironies of Automation
6.9 Culture
Chapter 7: Measuring Success
7.1 The Feedback Loop
7.2 Ticket Reporting
7.3 Measuring Detectability
7.4 Transition to Automated Alarms
7.5 Maintenance Overhead
7.6 How (Not) to Measure
Chapter 8: The Principles
8.1 Get in the Habit of Measuring
8.2 Draw Conclusions Reliably
8.3 Monitor Extensively
8.4 Alarm Selectively
8.5 Work Smart, Not Hard
Setting Up OpenTSDB
The Software
First Steps
Gathering Data System-Wide
Timeseries Plots
Get Involved