Infrastructure Monitoring
Infrastructure monitoring is the practice of continuously observing and measuring the performance, availability, and health of IT infrastructure components such as servers, networks, databases, and cloud services. It involves collecting metrics, logs, and traces to detect issues, ensure reliability, and optimize resource utilization. This enables proactive management of systems to prevent downtime and maintain service-level agreements (SLAs).
Developers should learn infrastructure monitoring to build resilient, scalable applications and participate in DevOps/SRE practices. It's essential for troubleshooting production issues, capacity planning, and ensuring high availability in microservices or cloud-native architectures. Specific use cases include monitoring Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and on-premises data centers to meet operational and business requirements.