Devops Mastery

If you think there are a lot of tools to configure your systems you haven't looked at the tools available to monitor your stuff. The set is so large that it is easy to get overwhelmed. So again in this article I am going to give you a list that I use to narrow the field. Then I am going to give you a list of my favorites. Is it agent, agentless, or hybrid? As with most configuration management tools this question cuts both ways. The best in this class of tools with agents have well documented deployment paths that use various configuration management tools. For instance, they will have Chef or Puppet packages that cut down your time to deploy them tremendously. The choice on this question is how much time you have to deploy it and how fast a response do you need from the tool. Agent based tools are faster in most cases. Agentless tools rely on some form of remote execution tool like ssh or remote powershell and an SNMP(Simple Network Monitoring Protocol) agent. Because the server in an agentless system