Definition
Category: Infrastructure | Level: Intermediate
The practice of continuously observing IT infrastructure, applications, and services to detect anomalies, performance degradation, or outages — and automatically notifying the right teams when thresholds are breached.
Why This Matters for Your Business
You can't fix what you can't see. Monitoring & alerting transforms your IT operations from reactive firefighting to proactive management, catching disk space warnings, CPU spikes, and network latency issues before they escalate into business-impacting outages.