Posts by 1T_Dave

Is tech monitoring software still worth talking about?

OK - I get you aren't going to be able to fix everything... The 'fix it' part isn't my major gripe, monolithic monitoring systems are. I want a loosely coupled monitoring system, that gives me flexibility and doesn't trap me in a vendors way of thinking. AWS Cloudwatch is the best I've seen.

P.S. I not responsible for anything on-premise.

Oh no! Another developer who thinks they've cracked it! They all say the same.

1. So what should happen in these circumstances? You want the Audit failures to stop? How could this happen automatically? Block IP? Granted once you've "fixed" it you'd want a human to investigate.

2. Yes I want more space automatically allocated. In the cloud that is possible! Oh and why you using "disk" to store persistant data?

3. Drop the server out the load balancer and automatically rebuild another one or add more servers. You'd then want to investigate what happened, but any customer impact is mitigated.

Granted all these require software that's built in a certain way... Maybe the problem isn't with the monitoring systems it's with the software it's trying to monitor?

The days of of monolithic monitoring software is hopefully close to an end. I haven't come across a good one yet! There are plenty of building blocks available in AWS and Azure that you can use to build a really good monitoring system, oh and monitoring is now longer good enough! Don't just monitor and alert a human.Fix it!