Do you have a nagging feeling that your monitoring needs improvement, but you're just not sure where to start or how to do it? Are you plagued by constant, meaningless alerts? Does your monitoring system routinely miss real problems? This is the book for you. Author Mike Julian, Founder of Aster Labs and former operations engineer at Taos Consulting, lays out a practical approach to designing and implementing an effective monitoring strategy—from the application down to the hardware in the datacenter, and everything in between.