Monitoring constitutes the continuous oversight of systems and applications to assess their health and performance. By employing a combination of tools and techniques, monitoring ensures that systems function within established parameters. It provides real-time insights into system metrics such as uptime, response time, and resource utilization. This continuous surveillance not only aids in the early detection of potential issues but also facilitates optimization efforts.
- Prometheus: Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, especially popular for cloud-native environments.
- Nagios: Comprehensive monitoring system for servers, network devices, applications, and services.
- Datadog: Cloud-scale monitoring that provides full-stack observability.
- Zabbix: Open-source solution for real-time monitoring of networks and applications.
- Grafana: Open-source platform for monitoring and observability, often paired with Prometheus.
- New Relic: Observability platform that provides real-time insights into application performance.
- SolarWinds: Comprehensive IT monitoring and management tools.
AWS Solutions
- Amazon CloudWatch: Provides data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health.
- AWS X-Ray: Helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture.
- Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights: A fully managed observability service for monitoring, troubleshooting, and securing your containerized applications.
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics: Allows you to monitor application endpoints and APIs using canaries.
- AWS Auto Scaling: Monitors your applications and adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.
- AWS Trusted Advisor: Provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.
- Amazon Inspector: An automated security assessment service that monitors the AWS environment, identifying deviations from best practices and vulnerabilities.
- AWS Config: Provides a detailed view of the configuration of AWS resources in your AWS account.
- Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens: Provides a visual representation of the health, performance, and traces of requests flowing through your application.