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Chapter 17. Monitoring Architecture and Practice
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of
nothing.
—Oscar Wilde
Thischapterdiscussestheanatomyofamonitoringsystem.Bestpracticesforeachcompon-
ent are described along the way.
A monitoring system has many different parts. Dickson (
2013
) decomposes monitoring
systems into the functional components depicted in
Figure 17.1
.
A measurement flows
through a pipeline of steps. Each step receives its configuration from the configuration base
and uses the storage system to read and write metrics and results.
Figure 17.1: The components of a monitoring system
The
sensing and measurement system
gathers the measurements. The
collection sys-
tem
transports them to the
storage system
. From there, one or more
analysis systems
ex-
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