As per the Accelerate State of DevOps 2019 report survey, 80% of the respondents said that the primary application or service they supported was hosted on some kind of cloud platform. 50% of the respondents said their primary application was hosted on the public cloud.
Prometheus is an open-source, metrics-based monitoring system. It collects data from services and hosts by sending HTTP requests on metrics endpoints. It then stores the results in a time-series database and makes it available for analysis and alerting.
Configuring, monitoring, and securing networks form an essential part of a Sysadmin’s job. When it comes to managing Linux networks, there are many commands and utilities available.