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#55 3 Uses for Monitoring Data Other Than Alerts and Dashboards
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- Reliability Enablers
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- Aug 27, 2024
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Summary
We’ll explore 3 use cases for monitoring data. They are: * Analyzing long-term trends * Comparing over time or experiment groups * Conducting ad hoc retrospective analysis Analyzing long-term trends You can ask yourself a couple of simple questions as a starting point: * How big is my database? * How fast is the database growing? * How quickly is my user count growing? As you get comfortable with analyzing data for the simpler questions, you can start to analyze trends for less straightforward questions like: * How is the database performance evolving? Are there signs of degradation? * Is there consistent growth in data volume that may require future infrastructure adjustments? * How is overall resource utilization trending over time across different services? * How is the cost of cloud resources evolving, and what does that mean for budget forecasting? * Are there recurring patterns in downtime or service degradation, and what can be done to mitigate them? Sebastian mentioned that it's a part of observability he enjoys doing. I can understand why. It’s exciting to see how components are changing over a period and working out solutions before you end up in an incident response nightmare. Getting to effectively analyze the trends requires the right level of data retention settings. Because if you're throwing out your logs, traces, and metrics too early, you will not have enough historical data to do this kind of work. Doing this right means having the right amount of data in place to be able to analyze those trends over time, and that will of course depend on your desired period. Comparing over time or experiment groups Google’s definition You're comparing the data results for different groups that you want to compare and contrast. Using a few examples from the SRE (201…