Monitoring & alerting is the practice of continuously tracking system health and performance and notifying teams when predefined conditions or anomalies occur. It uses metrics, thresholds, and alerts to identify issues early. Often referred to as system monitoring, it is essential for reliable operations.
Without effective monitoring and alerting, issues often go unnoticed until users are impacted. Proactive monitoring reduces downtime, improves incident response, and helps teams maintain service reliability as systems grow in scale and complexity.
Telemetry is collected from systems and stored in monitoring platforms. Alert rules evaluate this data continuously and trigger notifications through channels like email, chat, or incident management tools when conditions are met.
BuildPiper integrates monitoring and alerting with deployment and release workflows. By correlating alerts with releases, teams can quickly determine whether incidents are caused by recent changes and respond more effectively.
Monitoring focuses on known metrics and predefined alerts, while observability enables deeper exploration of system behavior using metrics, logs, and traces.
Teams should monitor availability, latency, error rates, resource utilisation, and business-critical indicators that reflect user experience.
BuildPiper uses monitoring and alerting data to assess deployment health, surface risks during releases, and improve decision-making in delivery workflows.