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Monitoring your server's operation (Medium)

Monitoring is a part of any operation management practice. As with any other monitoring discipline, you will need to choose which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are applicable to your business and application, and which thresholds/ranges are acceptable and unacceptable for you.

Getting ready

Yes, you can do real-time pedestrian monitoring by running command-line tools yourself. Let's face it, a lot of systems administrators will still login via SSH to their servers and run top for a reason; immediate snapshots have immediate value in the monitoring process. But you can also install a monitoring product and map the values over time. A mix of the two approaches will be valuable while managing a Debian ...