Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
Infrastructure monitoring tools are software solutions that track the performance, availability, and health of IT infrastructure components such as servers, networks, databases, and cloud services. They collect metrics, logs, and traces to provide real-time visibility, alerting, and dashboards for operational teams. These tools help ensure system reliability, optimize resource usage, and facilitate troubleshooting in complex environments.
Developers should learn and use infrastructure monitoring tools when building or maintaining scalable, production-grade applications to proactively detect issues, ensure uptime, and meet service-level agreements (SLAs). They are essential for DevOps and SRE practices, enabling automated monitoring of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerized deployments. Specific use cases include performance bottleneck identification, capacity planning, security incident detection, and compliance reporting.