Monitoring and Alerting vs Basic Logging
Developers should learn and implement monitoring and alerting to maintain operational excellence in production environments, especially for distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications meets developers should learn and use basic logging to diagnose issues in production environments where debugging tools are unavailable, track application flow for performance optimization, and maintain audit trails for security and compliance. Here's our take.
Monitoring and Alerting
Developers should learn and implement monitoring and alerting to maintain operational excellence in production environments, especially for distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications
Monitoring and Alerting
Nice PickDevelopers should learn and implement monitoring and alerting to maintain operational excellence in production environments, especially for distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications
Pros
- +It is critical for detecting failures, performance degradation, security threats, and capacity issues early, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) and preventing downtime
- +Related to: metrics-collection, log-management
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Basic Logging
Developers should learn and use basic logging to diagnose issues in production environments where debugging tools are unavailable, track application flow for performance optimization, and maintain audit trails for security and compliance
Pros
- +It is essential for any non-trivial application, especially in distributed systems, web services, and long-running processes where real-time monitoring is critical
- +Related to: structured-logging, log-aggregation
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Monitoring and Alerting if: You want it is critical for detecting failures, performance degradation, security threats, and capacity issues early, reducing mean time to resolution (mttr) and preventing downtime and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Basic Logging if: You prioritize it is essential for any non-trivial application, especially in distributed systems, web services, and long-running processes where real-time monitoring is critical over what Monitoring and Alerting offers.
Developers should learn and implement monitoring and alerting to maintain operational excellence in production environments, especially for distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications
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