This blog series explores how Zabbix and Nagios users can leverage the SRE Golden Signals for effective application monitoring. It focuses on the importance of monitoring for maintaining high availability and introduces the concept of SRE Golden Signals.

SRE Golden Signals: These are four core metrics (Latency, Traffic, Errors, Saturation) that provide a foundational understanding of a system's health.

The blog delves into Latency, explaining how to measure it from different perspectives (client vs server) and the importance of differentiating between successful and failed request latencies. It highlights how Zabbix and Nagios can be configured to address these aspects.

The summary mentions that future parts will explore the remaining Golden Signals (Traffic, Errors, Saturation) and even delve into strategies for incorporating additional metrics for more in-depth monitoring.

This blog post explores monitoring tools used by DevOps engineers and SREs to maintain IT infrastructure health and ensure service reliability. It covers the three main types of monitoring tools (network, server, application performance), factors to consider when choosing a tool, and provides a list of popular options including Prometheus and Zabbix.

The importance of incident management is also addressed, highlighting Squadcast as a tool that integrates with monitoring tools to streamline the incident resolution process. By combining monitoring and incident management, teams can effectively respond to issues and minimize downtime.

Overall, the blog emphasizes selecting the right tools to gather the necessary data for optimizing IT infrastructure performance and ensuring a positive user experience.