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Part of the initial challenge around this is understanding what advanced monitoring techniques actually are. In this article, I help clarify this by differentiating basic and advanced monitoring, with examples of how each would be applied to Postgres monitoring.
With advanced monitoring, you have the ability to observe that, monitoring things like: The first part of advanced monitoring is being able to observe what’s going on and compare that to what you expect should be happening.
Some of the biggest advantages of applying advanced monitoring come not from actually having advanced monitoring, but rather the journey that got you to advanced monitoring.
Moving to more advanced monitoring is a journey, and you can set the pace.
Editorial note: This is a summary of an article first published by The New Stack. The full piece is on their site.