The Four Questions (Every Monitoring Engineer gets asked)
summary
Explains four concrete monitoring questions—why did I get this alert, why didn’t I get an alert, what is being monitored, what could alert—and gives actionable answers: include thresholds and context in alerts, test the full notification chain, monitor the monitoring (heartbeat checks), keep an automated inventory of collected metrics and possible alerts, avoid FYI alerts and automate remediation where possible. Recommends practical tools and skills like SQL and Wireshark for inventory and verification, and contrasts monitoring vs alerts with examples (muted alerts, credential loss, email system down).
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:54Why did I get this alert
- 9:50Why didn’t I get an alert
- 13:44What is being monitored on my systems
- 19:18What could alert on my systems
- 25:18What do you monitor standard
- 29:00Q&A and summary
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