Alerting

Observability

The ability to understand a system's internal state from its external outputs, encompassing metrics, logs, and traces.

Monitoring

The continuous observation of system performance, availability, and health using automated tools and dashboards.

Logging

The practice of recording events, errors, and system activities for debugging, auditing, and analysis.

Distributed Tracing

A method of tracking requests as they flow through distributed systems to diagnose latency and failure points.

Metrics

Quantitative measurements collected over time to track system performance, health, and business outcomes.

Prometheus

An open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit designed for reliability and scalability in cloud-native environments.

Grafana

An open-source analytics and visualisation platform for monitoring metrics from multiple data sources.

Error Budget

The maximum amount of time a service can be unavailable within a given period based on its SLO.

A package manager for Kubernetes that simplifies the deployment and management of applications using charts.

A collaboration model connecting tools, processes, and automation with team chat platforms for operations management.

An automated workflow that builds, tests, and deploys software changes from development to production.

A deployment strategy that gradually replaces instances of the previous version with the new version.

A comprehensive guide containing strategies, procedures, and best practices for managing specific operational scenarios.

An automated test that verifies a service or system component is functioning correctly.

Increasing the resources (CPU, RAM, storage) of an existing machine to handle more load.

A configuration management tool using Ruby-based scripts to automate infrastructure setup and maintenance.