From the course: Nail Your DevOps Interview
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Monitoring and alerting
From the course: Nail Your DevOps Interview
Monitoring and alerting
- How do you know if something goes wrong in your production environment? - This question is used to gauge your experience with getting real-time feedback through monitoring and alerting. This is an open-ended scenario-style question, so a few methods can be combined to answer this question. You can start with a definition method to list some monitoring tools, then explain a few different types of monitoring and finally, wrap up with alerting. You can round out your answer with the THX method. There are many monitoring and alerting tools available for DevOps teams. Some of the more well-known ones include Nagios, Sensu, New Relic, and Datadog. PagerDuty is a popular tool for alerting and incident tracking. Infrastructure monitoring is probably the most basic kind of monitoring. It gives you telemetry information on things like CPU, memory and disk utilization for servers or other resources. Synthetic monitoring or…
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