Passive Monitoring

TLDR - Why don't you have passive monitoring yet?

Monitoring is a big topic. I can attempt to simplify it into a few categories. Passive Infrastructure Monitoring: Track CPU, Memory, Load, Uptime, Network, etc Log shipping: This is where your services stream their logs and you set alerts or metrics on certain patterns Active Monitoring: Ping your servers on a timer for aliveness/health, or a full verification of an API endpoint and its response Application Performance Monitoring: Metrics through code injection/addition to view application metrics The one I want to discuss today is passive monitoring. [Read More]