Monitoring System Audit

We review your current monitoring systems and recommend changes and the adoption of best practices so you know what’s wrong immediately and have the information needed to fix it.

Classic monitoring systems do not cover all layers of the application architecture. They can embrace only some separate layers. At the same time, businesses create new products very often, up to several releases per day.

Thus, it is very difficult to maintain up-to-date monitoring system with constantly-changing functionality and services. Therefore, engineers and the business face a new challenge: to choose a monitoring strategy that will evaluate both the operation of the system as a whole and the operation of individual subsystems.

That requires a comprehensive approach that will include project analysis in several areas:

  1. Business logic: We determine the project indicators that are critical for your business and for your company in general.
  2. Architecture: We identify key services (their integrations and communications), the disruption of which will lead to downtime of your business as a whole and/or its individual units.
  3. Infrastructure: We collect low-level metrics (status of the equipment and communication channels and resource consumption).

Your team of developers and Devops engineers might spend a lot of time on monitoring instead of creating new products and developing new functionality. Do not waste your resources -  let Swift360 audit your monitoring system.

We offer

Audit
Enhancement
Support

Monitoring Audit

We determine the status of your business's monitoring system, find flaws and frame a plan to eliminate them.

That includes:

  1. Auditing the existing project monitoring systems;
  2. Assessing how much of the infrastructure is covered by the existing systems;
  3. Analyzing alert system and functional escalation processes.

Meanwhile:

  • There is constant communication between your Ops/Dev teams and our specialists;
  • There is no direct access to your infrastructure (we access only your monitoring systems and project documentation).

Deliverables:

  1. Description of all the advantages and disadvantages of the monitoring tools you use;
  2. Report on all necessary modifications and detailed plan for their implementation.
  3. Consultations on choosing the right monitoring strategy for your project.

Monitoring Enhancement

We create a strategy to monitor your business products, select a pool of the best tools and define complete set of metrics.

That includes:

  1. Analyzing all processes of your business product;
  2. Advising about the best monitoring strategy for your business and helping to apply one;
  3. Making a list of required metrics at all levels: from the business logic of the product to the applications and status of equipment;
  4. Creating functional escalation processes to alert your team about incidents;
  5. Making a list of required metrics at all levels: from the business logic of the product to the applications and status of equipment;
  6. Advising about the best monitoring strategy for your business and helping to apply one;
  7. Providing instructions and regulations for further support of the monitoring system by the means of your own team.

Meanwhile:

  • There is constant communication between your Ops/Dev teams and our specialists.

Deliverables:

  1. Monitoring strategy that is created specifically for your business product;
  2. Description of the monitoring tools that best suit to reach your business objectives;
  3. Assistance with the introduction of new tools (upon request);
  4. Documentation about maintenance of your monitoring systems.

Monitoring Support

We support monitoring strategy and systems to keep them up to date.

That includes:

  1. Updating regularly your monitoring metrics systems according to new the developments of your business product;
  2. Sharing knowledge about the best practices of working with product monitoring.

Meanwhile:

  • There is constant communication between your team and our specialists to exchange notifications about product updates in a prompt manner;
  • There is regular update of your project's monitoring strategy and  tools.

Deliverables:

  1. Monitoring system that works steadily in all layers of your project's architecture;
  2. Minimization of financial risks, which may occur due to downtime or incorrect operation of your business system and/or its individual services.
  3. Mechanism for proactive enhancement of your monitoring system in accordance with changes in your business product.

Technology stack:

    Monitoring and visualization systems:
  • Prometheus, Grafana, TICK Stack, Zabbix, Nagios, Icinga, DataDog, NewRelic.
    Incident response systems
  • PagerDuty, Amixr.
    Logging systems
  • ELK, EFK, Grafana Loki, Graylog, Sentry.
    Tracing systems:
  • Jaeger, Zipkin.
    Web, ingress and application servers.
  • Nginx, Envoy, Linkerd, Traefik, Apache, HAProxy, Jetty, Tomcat, NodeJS
    Cloud-providers
  • AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud

Tell us about your setup and we'll tell you how we can help

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Free consultation:
+971-50-703-6989 or info@swift-360.com