From the course: DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability
Join today to access over 24,600 courses taught by industry experts.
Collecting system events
From the course: DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability
Collecting system events
- [Instructor] Events are often not talked about in the context of the pillars of observability. However, they're an interesting piece of the puzzle. Events are changes within or external to your system or infrastructure that could affect the availability or uptime of your service. Because events can be so fundamental, they can give some insights into the behavior of your service, especially when the service is seemingly operating fine. For example, an outage in your service could be caused by a deployment, which is a change event, or even by a restart of the infrastructure where your service is deployed. Seeing what changes or events are caught in your system and correlating that with the other signals you're getting could very well be the missing piece of the puzzle in your exploration. Depending on the observability tool you're using, there are different ways to collect and observe events. This also depends on the…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.
