/setup-monitoring

Set up monitoring and alerting for application and infrastructure metrics.

Steps

1. Define what to monitor: 2. Choose the monitoring stack: 3. Instrument the application: 4. Configure alerting rules: 5. Set up notification channels: 6. Create runbooks for each alert. 7. Test the monitoring by simulating failure scenarios.

Format

Monitoring: <service name>
Stack: <tools used>
Metrics:
  - <metric name>: <type> (<threshold>)

Rules

• Alert on symptoms (error rate), not causes (CPU usage).
• Every alert must have a runbook with resolution steps.
• Avoid alert fatigue: only alert on actionable conditions.