Hey, it’s Daniel!

Understanding the landscape of infrastructure monitoring is crucial for us as CTOs and tech specialists. It’s not just about keeping systems running and extinguishing the fires of alert situations but utilizing all information for decision-making and preventing problems at the slightest signs of them.

We installed tens of monitoring systems (our favorites are for PancakeSwap, GotBit, and Kolibrio projects), and nobody regretted this investment. It saves much more than money; it keeps the sanity of DevOps and other engineers responsible for the infrastructure and makes each manager confident in tomorrow’s day of the project. 

So, what makes a reliable infrastructure monitoring system?

The formula of excellent infra monitoring

A sound infrastructure monitoring setup should be comprehensive, encompassing application, server, and container monitoring. It should streamline issue resolution, integrate with existing systems, and provide actionable insights — all of which save time and reduce costs.

In the perfect scenario, it should be tightly integrated with the predictive scaling engine to share indicators and data that can trigger an up- or down-scaling.

Features of infrastructure monitoring

Your weapon of choice: Infrastructure monitoring tools

I would say that each project needs one fully customized suite or meticulously selected set of less advanced tools. Here’s what’s the difference between simple tools and comprehensive solutions:

Another thing that I wanted to warn you about is a seduction to interpret monitoring or the final results of it in the form of a dashboard. Dashboard is not your goal. It’s a nice bonus, but those trends on the screen won’t do if the data channels are broken and no actionable alerts are on. Also, any dashboard is useless for those who don’t know how to read it and take action accordingly.

We have a story connected with monitoring systems peculiarities that made our DevOps a little pale. Read about how 20 million of 408 mistakes might not be a tragedy.

We’re just warming up!

Infrastructure monitoring is a bottomless yet creative topic for engineers to discuss. Connect on our Web3 Infra Hub in Telegram to expand this conversation. What strategies are you employing to monitor and optimize your tech infrastructure? 

Our next email will bring you an in-depth look at Blockchain App Development from a DevOps perspective.

Warm regards, Daniel