Automated Monitoring
Automated Monitoring is a software development and operations practice that involves using tools and systems to continuously track the performance, availability, and health of applications, infrastructure, and services without manual intervention. It typically includes collecting metrics, logs, and traces, setting up alerts for anomalies, and visualizing data through dashboards. This enables proactive issue detection, reduces downtime, and supports data-driven decision-making in IT environments.
Developers should learn and use Automated Monitoring to ensure system reliability, performance optimization, and efficient incident response in production environments, especially for cloud-native, microservices, or distributed applications. It is crucial for DevOps and SRE roles to maintain service-level objectives (SLOs), automate scaling, and debug issues quickly, reducing manual toil and improving user experience.