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What to Monitor in a Website
The Conundrum of Monitoring
So you put up your website in the cloud, and your hosting company, cloud providers, and all sorts of people offer you to monitor your website.
Launching A Platform
Now that I am approaching the launch of my platform for auction events for creators, I am putting it up in the cloud. So I need to create a server where the platform will run. Having done that, I encountered so many options to monitor it.
Despite having twenty-five years of industrial experience, I still found my head swirling from all these offers. In all the IT companies I worked for, we had a DevOps or infrastructure team to monitor whatever we needed.
So I had to make some order in my thoughts. For this purpose, I created the drawing you see at the top of this article.
The Web Application and the Scheduler
We have a web application, a website with screens, and a database. For any platform, there are some jobs that we need to do every day, every week, or every month. Such jobs include sending monthly invoices. Thus, we need a scheduler to run these jobs at the required frequency.
