Learnings-From-Work

Exceptions/Errors to Alert On

• SSL

• Kafka

• SQL

• NoSQL

• Auth

• Logging

• Caching

Performance Metrics to Monitor

• Cpu Utilization

• Memory Utilization

• Latency

• Error count

• Error per second

• Disk Utilization

Status Codes to Alert On

• 502

• 504

• 503

• 401

• 403

• 404

• 429

Cost To Consider

• Software Licenses

• Query exectution costs

• Cost to miss

  • Restore Point Objective

  • Restore Time Objective

  • Service Level Agreements

  • Service Level Objectives

• Cost of Human Errors

  • Due to fat fingering

  • Due to fatigue

  • Due to lack of knowledge

  • Due to lack of training

• Cross-region traffic

• Ingress

• Egress

• Compliance violations