Who monitors the monitoring systems?
Adrian Cockcroft
APRIL 18, 2018
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”?—?Juvenal Photo taken in Lisbon Portugal by Adrian Cockcroft The documentation for most monitoring tools describes how to use that tool in isolation, often as if no other tools exist, but sometimes with ways to import or export some of the data to other tools. In reality, in any non-trivial installation, there are multiple tools collecting, storing and displaying overlapping sets of metrics from many types of systems and different levels of abstraction.
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