Monitoring Tools
Monitoring tools are software applications or platforms used to track the performance, availability, and health of IT systems, applications, and infrastructure in real-time. They collect metrics, logs, and traces to provide visibility into system behavior, detect anomalies, and alert on issues before they impact users. These tools are essential for maintaining reliability, optimizing performance, and ensuring business continuity in modern software environments.
Developers should learn and use monitoring tools to proactively manage application health, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, and meet service-level agreements (SLAs) in production environments. They are critical for DevOps and SRE practices, enabling automated incident response, capacity planning, and root cause analysis in distributed systems like microservices or cloud-native architectures.