Monitoring and reliability
Logs, metrics, alerts and honest reviews turn outages into routine. Designers meet these in status pages, error states and incident reviews.
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- BeginnerHealth ChecksAutomated requests issued to a service endpoint to determine if it is operational and responsive.Not yet reviewed
- BeginnerMonitoringCollecting, analyzing, and visualizing system state metrics to detect anomalies and track health.Not yet reviewed
- BeginnerLoggingRecording timestamped discrete event outputs emitted by software applications during runtime.Not yet reviewed
- IntermediateDistributed TracingA technique to profile and monitor requests as they travel across multiple microservices.Not yet reviewed
- BeginnerMetricsNumeric values measured over intervals that provide insights into performance, utility, and resource usage.Not yet reviewed
- BeginnerAlertsAutomated notifications triggered when monitored metrics exceed defined thresholds.Not yet reviewed
- IntermediateSLOsService Level Objectives: targeted target goals set for service performance metrics (e.g., 99.9% uptime).Not yet reviewed
- IntermediateSLIsService Level Indicators: actual quantified measures of service performance (e.g., current measured latency or error rate).Not yet reviewed
- IntermediateError BudgetsThe maximum acceptable amount of downtime or unreliability allowed for a system before feature development freezes.Not yet reviewed
- IntermediateObservabilityThe degree to which the internal state of a system can be inferred from its external outputs (logs, metrics, traces).Not yet reviewed
- IntermediateDisaster RecoveryPolicies and procedures enabling the restoration of vital infrastructure following a disaster.Not yet reviewed
- BeginnerBackupsPeriodic copies of active data created and stored elsewhere for recovery if lost or corrupted.Not yet reviewed
- IntermediateChaos EngineeringIntentionally introducing failures into systems to test resilience and discover weaknesses before outages occur.Not yet reviewed
- IntermediateCost OptimizationStrategies and automated practices to monitor and reduce cloud infrastructure spending without degrading quality.Not yet reviewed
- BeginnerProduction IncidentsUnplanned events or outages causing operational degradation of critical production services.Not yet reviewed
- BeginnerOn-CallA rotation schedule assigning engineers to respond immediately to critical system alerts outside standard hours.Not yet reviewed
- BeginnerPostmortemsA blameless post-incident analysis document detailing root causes, impact, and actionable prevention steps.Not yet reviewed
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What is observability?
Asking new questions of a system, not just watching dashboards.
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