The RED and USE Methods
Learn two classic monitoring methodologies, RED for request-driven services and USE for resources, and when to apply each to focus your dashboards.
Why Methodologies?
With endless metrics available, teams drown in dashboards. RED and USE are proven recipes that tell you which few signals actually matter.
The RED Method
RED targets request-driven services and tracks three signals: Rate, Errors, and Duration.
- Rate: requests per second
- Errors: failed requests per second
- Duration: latency distribution
All lessons in this course
- Correlating Logs, Metrics, Traces
- Anomaly Detection and AI Ops
- SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets
- The RED and USE Methods