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Ask HN: Do you have any technical book recomendations for monitoring apps?

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I need to upgrade the logging and monitoring system of my applications and I wander if there is a book that could help me build a solid solution.

My application is .Net and hosted in Azure but any architectural technical book could help me.

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While not strictly about monitoring, Designing Data-intensive Applications [1] is one our our bibles when instrumenting a complex global network.

We use ideas like CDC and eventsourcing to make streams of data that we then correlate and visualise.

[1] https://dataintensive.net/

Thank you for this suggestion, I had that book in my reading queue and I will read it next.

Disclaimer: I work for Loggly

We recently published a buyer's guide - https://www.loggly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1907_loggl...

You can think of this as a checklist for building your strategy and choosing a vendor.

There's lots of good stuff here as well - https://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/ that's not specific to Loggly but contains a ton of information about logging in general.

Thank you for the information. I am looking for a log server and unfortunately every SaaS solution is at this price range.

Just wanted to point out that Papertrail offers log filtering that doesn't count against your log usage - https://help.papertrailapp.com/kb/how-it-works/log-filtering....

I have a rails app in production but was able to keep my costs down by filtering out basically everything that wasn't a stack trace.

Thanks for that, it does have much cheaper options

Whilst perhaps a bit tangential to what you're looking for, "Database Reliability Engineering" by Charity Majors is an excellent read, and has a chapter covering all the major steps in improving observability in existing apps / infra (here applied to databases).

I always wanted to read, but haven't heard many people talking about it.

You should look in to “observability”. google it. There some great open source projects Jaeger, Prometheus, OpenCensus etc that allow you to gather and visualize metrics, traces etc for your app.

Site Reliability Engineering is the book you should check out.

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