Comments on: The term “monitoring” needs clarification. http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/09/26/the-term-monitoring-needs-clarification/ Thoughts on capacity planning and web operations. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:07:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Peter Mui http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/09/26/the-term-monitoring-needs-clarification/comment-page-1/#comment-4415 Peter Mui Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:20:05 +0000 http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/09/26/the-term-monitoring-needs-clarification/#comment-4415 The BayLISA Monitoring SIG, which has been meeting for over a year now, classified Monitoring functionality into these four areas: Generation Collection Analysis Presentation It isn't perfect, but it was the best we could do after much discussion and deliberation and hemming and hawing. (For example, do "Aggregation" and "Notification" deserve separate mention, or are they functionally a subset of one of the above?) So one of the upcoming goals of the SIG is to map popular monitoring tools against these classifications. Obviously, some straddle more than one. The BayLISA Monitoring SIG, which has been meeting for over a year now, classified Monitoring functionality into these four areas:

Generation
Collection
Analysis
Presentation

It isn’t perfect, but it was the best we could do after much discussion and deliberation and hemming and hawing. (For example, do “Aggregation” and “Notification” deserve separate mention, or are they functionally a subset of one of the above?)

So one of the upcoming goals of the SIG is to map popular monitoring tools against these classifications. Obviously, some straddle more than one.

]]> By: sysadmin@pt http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/09/26/the-term-monitoring-needs-clarification/comment-page-1/#comment-3126 sysadmin@pt Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:19:36 +0000 http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/09/26/the-term-monitoring-needs-clarification/#comment-3126 Indeed. I usually use the term monitoring when referring to server and netwrok health checking but I also see the term applied to the other options. Most people I know use it do define graphing tools. Indeed. I usually use the term monitoring when referring to server and netwrok health checking but I also see the term applied to the other options. Most people I know use it do define graphing tools.

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