Monitoring
19 guides tagged “Monitoring”.
- How to Monitor an AI Agent in Production Monitor outcomes and actions, not just errors: completion rate, cost per run, tool failures, latency, and interventions per hundred runs.
- How to Detect a Rogue Agent Run Detect by behaviour, not intent: unexpected tool calls, egress, mass reads, privilege changes, and actions outside the task's declared scope.
- What Is an Agent Audit Trail? An agent audit trail records what the agent did, with which identity, on whose instruction, and with what result — outside the agent's control.
- What Are the DORA Metrics (and How Do You Measure Them)? The four DORA metrics measure delivery speed and stability: deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and time to restore.
- LLM Observability: What to Log and Trace Trace prompt version, model, tokens, tools, latency, cost, and outcome per request, with sensitive content redacted before storage.
- How to Measure Token ROI Token ROI is the value of a completed task divided by its full token cost, including retries, failures, and human review time.
- Background Jobs and Scheduled Tasks: The Part of Your App Nobody Monitors Cron jobs fail silently, queues lose messages, and retries duplicate work. Learn scheduling, queues, dead letters, backoff, idempotency, and monitoring — with linked guides.
- Why Do Cron Jobs Fail Silently (and How to Fix It)? Your cron job ran, output nothing, and did nothing. Here's why every cron job fails silently by default — and exactly how to fix it with logging, exit codes, managed schedulers, and external monitoring.
- Deploying AI-Generated Apps to Production: A Vibecoder's Checklist Your AI wrote the app. Now here's every step between 'it works on my machine' and 'it's running in production.' Deployment, monitoring, secrets, databases, and the checklist your AI didn't include.
- DevOps for AI Builders: What You Need to Know When Your AI Writes the Infra Your AI coding assistant writes CI/CD pipelines, Dockerfiles, and Terraform. Here's every DevOps concept you need to understand so it doesn't burn production down. 60+ linked guides.
- Why Is My Website Suddenly Slow? A diagnostic order for sudden slowness: is it the network, the application, the database, or a resource that ran out — and how to tell in minutes.
- What Is Uptime Monitoring? Uptime monitoring checks from outside whether your site is reachable and alerts you when it isn't. Learn how it works and what it can't tell you.
- How to Add Health Checks to Your App Add liveness and readiness endpoints to a Python, Node, or Go app and wire them to your platform so failures trigger restarts and routing.
- How to Set Up Basic Application Monitoring Set up basic app monitoring with Prometheus metrics, a health endpoint, and Grafana dashboards. A tool-agnostic tutorial with a concrete example.
- Don't Let Your Domain Expire: Monitoring Domain and Certificate Renewals Expired domains and certificates take sites down silently. Set up expiry alerts so you renew before the outage, not after.
- What Is Observability (and How Is It Different From Monitoring)? Monitoring tells you when something known is wrong; observability lets you ask new questions about unknown failures. Learn the difference with examples.
- How to Monitor Your Cron Jobs Stop losing jobs to silent failures: add a heartbeat check to every cron job so you get alerted the moment it misses a run.
- What Is a Health Check? A health check is an endpoint that reports whether your app is alive and ready. Learn the difference between liveness and readiness and why both matter.
- How to Get Alerted When Your Site Goes Down Set up down-alerts for your site in 10 minutes: an uptime check, the right alert channel, and a test that the alert actually fires.