Monitoring

How it is used

Used as an uncountable noun: 'we need better monitoring', 'monitoring tools', 'add monitoring for the queue'. Common tools are Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog and Amazon CloudWatch. The verb is 'monitor'.

Example sentences

1. Our monitoring showed the disk filling up two days before it became a problem.

2. Before the launch, make sure monitoring is in place for the new service.

Common collocations

• monitoring tool
• set up monitoring
• monitoring system
• uptime monitoring
• infrastructure monitoring

Related terms

• metricA number measured regularly over time to show how a system is behaving, such as CPU use, memory, request count or error rate.
• alertAn automatic notification sent to engineers when a monitored value crosses a limit or something looks wrong, for example when the error rate is too high.
• dashboardA screen that shows the most important metrics and charts about a system in one place, so engineers can see its health at a glance.
• observabilityHow well you can understand what is happening inside a system from the data it produces, especially logs, metrics and traces, even for problems nobody predicted.
• logA record of events written by an application or system, usually one line per event with a time, a level such as INFO or ERROR, and a message.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• monitoring · Software Engineering

More terms: Monitoring and Logging

• tracing
• health check