Table of Contents

Preface; Who Should Read This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Monitoring, Alerting, and What They Can Do for You; 1.2 Monitoring and Alerting in a Nutshell; 1.3 The Challenges; 1.4 Important Terms; Chapter 2: Monitoring; 2.1 The Building Blocks; 2.2 Drawing Conclusions from Timeseries Plots; Chapter 3: Alerting; 3.1 The Challenge; 3.2 Prerequisites; 3.3 Understanding Failure and Its Impact; 3.4 Anatomy of an Alarm; 3.5 Case Study: A Data Pipeline; 3.6 Types of Alerts; 3.7 Setting Up Alarms; 3.8 Alerting Suggestions; Chapter 4: At Scale; 4.1 Implications of Scale; 4.2 Composition of Large-Scale Systems; 4.3 Commonalities of Large-Scale Alerting Configurations; 4.4 Monitoring Coverage; 4.5 Managing Large Alerting Configurations; Chapter 5: Monitoring in System Automation; 5.1 Choosing Appropriate Maintenance Times Automatically; 5.2 Controlling the Rate of Upgrade; 5.3 Recovery-Oriented Admission Control; 5.4 Automated Deployment and Rollback; Chapter 6: The Work Environment; 6.1 Keeping an Audit Trail; 6.2 Working with Tickets; 6.3 Dealing with Anomalies; 6.4 Learning from Outages; 6.5 Using Checklists; 6.6 Creating Dashboards; 6.7 Service-Level Agreements; 6.8 Preventing the Ironies of Automation; 6.9 Culture; Chapter 7: Measuring Success; 7.1 The Feedback Loop; 7.2 Ticket Reporting; 7.3 Measuring Detectability; 7.4 Transition to Automated Alarms; 7.5 Maintenance Overhead; 7.6 How (Not) to Measure; Chapter 8: The Principles; 8.1 Get in the Habit of Measuring; 8.2 Draw Conclusions Reliably; 8.3 Monitor Extensively; 8.4 Alarm Selectively; 8.5 Work Smart, Not Hard; Setting Up OpenTSDB; The Software; First Steps; Gathering Data System-Wide; Timeseries Plots; Get Involved;