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Monitoring allows organizations to observe the status of their systems in real-time. Early detection of issues and analysis of performance data are crucial for optimizing processes and systems. Effective monitoring supports improvements in efficiency and reliability.
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Monitoring continuously collects and evaluates metrics, logs, or events to make a system’s state, performance, and failures visible.
Monitoring grew from the need to supervise complex technical systems in operation and detect incidents early. SRE practice popularised actionable signals and the four golden signals—latency, traffic, errors, and saturation—while observability broadens the view towards causes.
Define signals, thresholds, and owners: data is collected, condensed into a state, compared with expectations, and routed to a response or investigation when a meaningful deviation occurs.
Metrics, logs, and events describe observable states and trends.
Rules turn relevant deviations into notifications and priorities.
Latency, traffic, errors, and saturation form an SRE-oriented service view.
Monitoring supports operations, failure detection, and capacity decisions. Good alerts are actionable; monitoring alone does not explain causes or replace observability and diagnosis.
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