Collaborate with Monitors
April 5th, 2011
( Copied from Continuous Delivery )
Every operations team has some way of monitoring their production environments. They might have OpenNMS, or one of the alternatives such as Nagios or HP’s Operations Manager. Perhaps they have created their own custom monitoring system. Whichever system they use, they will want your application to hook into it so that they know the moment any error condition occurs, and where to look for more details to determine what has gone wrong.
It is important to find out, right at the beginning of the project, how the operations team expects to monitor your application, and make it part of your release plan. What do they want to monitor? Where are they expecting your logs to be? What hooks should your application use to notify operations staff of malfunctions?
