Monitoring
One of the most important ways to ensure whether CD and DevOps is working is to monitor, monitor, and then monitor some more. If all of the environments used within the CD process are constantly being observed, then the impact of any change (big or small) is easy to see—in other words, there should be no hidden surprises.
If you have good coverage in terms of monitoring, you have much more transparency across the board. There is no reason why monitoring should be restricted to the operations teams; everyone in the business should be able to see and understand how any environment—especially the production platform—is performing and what it is doing.
There are plenty of monitoring tools available, but it can be quite difficult to get a ...
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