Monitoring & Alerting Systems
Set up effective monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively detect issues and understand system performance in real-time.
Why Monitor Your SaaS?
Running a SaaS application means ensuring it's always available and performing well for your users. Monitoring is like having a constant health check for your application.
It involves collecting data about your system's performance and behavior. This data helps you understand what's happening under the hood.
Key Performance Metrics
You can monitor many things! Here are some crucial categories:
- Infrastructure: CPU usage, memory, disk I/O, network traffic.
- Application: Request rates, error rates, response times (latency), database queries.
- User Experience: Page load times, click-through rates, active users.
These metrics tell you if your system is healthy and if users are having a good experience.
All lessons in this course
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery
- Monitoring & Alerting Systems
- Logging & Distributed Tracing
- Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets