Monitoring a single service

Application monitoring, in general, seems simple. However, it implies a great capacity for analysis and knowledge of what to monitor. Firstly, we will cover the monitoring of a single server and then understand how the monitoring of multiple servers occurs.

There are two major general aspects of monitoring. The first aspect is machine monitoring, that is to say, measuring the availability, health, and performance of an application's servers. The second is monitoring the application, as it may be that the server machine is fully functional, but the application is not.

Within the scope of monitoring, there are two ways to do it—passive monitoring and active monitoring:

  • Active Monitoring is when the server that is ...

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