Traditional IT Monitoring
Traditional IT monitoring is a methodology focused on tracking the performance, availability, and health of IT infrastructure components like servers, networks, and applications using predefined metrics and thresholds. It typically involves centralized dashboards, alerting systems, and reactive troubleshooting to maintain system stability and uptime. This approach relies heavily on agent-based or agentless data collection from hardware and software to detect issues after they occur.
Developers should learn traditional IT monitoring when working in legacy or on-premises environments where stability and compliance are critical, such as in banking, healthcare, or government sectors. It's essential for maintaining uptime in systems with predictable workloads and for troubleshooting performance bottlenecks in server-based applications. Use cases include monitoring CPU usage, memory consumption, network latency, and application response times to prevent outages.