DevOps Monitoring is a Multi-tool Affair

DevOps monitoring tools are crucial for streamlining workflows and improving user satisfaction by offering insights into infrastructure, application performance, and log analysis. Infrastructure and network monitoring tools, such as Nagios and Zabbix, focus on identifying and resolving IT infrastructure issues to prevent business disruptions, although they don't provide a holistic view of cloud applications. Application performance monitoring (APM) tools like New Relic and AppDynamics enable teams to detect and address application performance problems at the code level, but they lack capabilities for log file analysis and security monitoring. Log analysis tools, exemplified by Splunk and Elastic Stack, efficiently store and index log files for security monitoring but do not provide application performance insights. The complexity and overlapping data from using multiple monitoring tools can lead to chaos during incidents, necessitating an incident management platform like PagerDuty, which centralizes alerts, suppresses low-priority notifications, and integrates with various monitoring systems to provide comprehensive end-to-end monitoring. By automating notification processes and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR), incident management platforms help DevOps teams effectively manage their toolsets and approach a more ideal monitoring solution.