Operations → Observability
Monitoring
The practice of collecting and watching signals that indicate system health and behavior.
Motivation
Monitoring watches system behavior over time. It solves the problem of knowing whether a system is healthy before users have to complain.
Mental model
Monitoring turns runtime behavior into signals teams can inspect and alert on.
Where it fits
Monitoring belongs to the Operations track, inside Observability. It connects to nearby concepts through the graph relationships on this page and in the graph explorer.
Common mistakes
- Monitoring infrastructure but not user-facing behavior.
- Alerting on symptoms that nobody can act on.
- Forgetting to monitor dependencies.
Related concepts
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