Added a section for bad monitoring examples #15
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A thought: since these "war stories" are a new thing, what do you think about putting them in a .md file or a section of their own, and then linking to them from a shorter text that has the basic problem description and recommendation? That way, in case the war stories include multiple examples of bad practices, they could be linked to from multiple places in the document. Maybe the stories themselves could even have a section that spells out the causes of the problems, and links to the relevant best practices. |
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These kinds of war stories are really valuable! Would it make sense to link to a separate .md file from this document describing how things can do wrong, but then also add to this document solutions or proposals on how to do monitoring? Pingdom and New Relic kind of services come to mind, that can do "smart alerting" when something happens. |
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| The status pages may need proper authorization in place, especially in case they expose debugging information in status messages or application metrics. HTTP basic authentication or IP-based restrictions are usually good enough candidates to consider. | |||
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| ## Bad examples of monitoring | |||
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| When crafting a new service, it’s tempting to create some basic monitoring, like automatically sent emails incase of errors. | |||
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war stories: write a blog post and link to it. Also discuss what should have been the right (or at least better) approach. I'm 👎 on merging this as is. |
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Maybe rewrite this as "word of warning - use email alerts with caution" (with some additional words about hurry/small budget/easy way)? War stories then as a blog post :). |
Complete remake
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I'd like to see something that clearly states that email alerts should be su 7. helmikuuta 2016 klo 20.24 Lauri Anttila [email protected]
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This was discussed in LCM related workshop, feel free to groom the text in case it's awful.