adding learning checklist to monitoring page

mattmakai · mattmakai · commit 27a2a9a10a6f · 2014-05-08T06:56:42.000-04:00
diff --git a/change-log.html b/change-log.html
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ <h1>Change Log</h1>
 <h2>2014</h2>
 <h3>May</h3>
 <ul>
-<li>Added learning checklist to operating systems and web servers pages.</li>
+<li>Added learning checklist to operating systems, web servers and monitoring 
+  pages.</li>
 <li>Adding more logging resources.</li>
 <li>Continuing to add learning checklists to sections such as servers.</li>
 <li>Moving navigation options into meta tags on markdown pages.</li>
diff --git a/feeds/all.atom.xml b/feeds/all.atom.xml
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Matt Makai</title><link href="http://www.fullstackpython.com/" rel="alternate"></link><link href="http://www.fullstackpython.com/feeds/all.atom.xml" rel="self"></link><id>http://www.fullstackpython.com/</id><updated>2014-05-08T06:52:12Z</updated></feed>
+<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Matt Makai</title><link href="http://www.fullstackpython.com/" rel="alternate"></link><link href="http://www.fullstackpython.com/feeds/all.atom.xml" rel="self"></link><id>http://www.fullstackpython.com/</id><updated>2014-05-08T06:56:34Z</updated></feed>
diff --git a/monitoring.html b/monitoring.html
@@ -53,6 +53,21 @@ <h2>Why is monitoring necessary?</h2>
 <p>Capturing and analyzing data about your production environment is critical
 to proactively deal with stability, performance, and errors in a web 
 application.</p>
+<h2>Monitoring learning checklist</h2>
+<p><i class="fa fa-check-square-o"></i>
+Review the software-as-a-service and open source monitoring tools below. Third
+party services tend to be easier to set up and host the data for you. Open
+source projects give you more control but you'll need to have additional 
+servers ready for the monitoring.</p>
+<p><i class="fa fa-check-square-o"></i>
+My recommendation is to install <a href="http://newrelic.com/">New Relic</a>'s free 
+option with the trial period to see how it works with your app. It'll give you
+a good idea of the capabilities for application-level monitoring tools.</p>
+<p><i class="fa fa-check-square-o"></i>
+As your app scales take a look at setting up one of the the open source 
+monitoring projects such as StatsD with Graphite. The combination of those
+two projects will give you fine-grained control over the system metrics 
+you're collecting and visualizing.</p>
 <h2>Monitoring layers</h2>
 <p>There are several important resources to monitor on the operating system 
 and network level of a web stack.</p>
diff --git a/source/content/pages/08-monitoring-analytics/0803-monitoring.markdown b/source/content/pages/08-monitoring-analytics/0803-monitoring.markdown
@@ -28,6 +28,25 @@ Capturing and analyzing data about your production environment is critical
 to proactively deal with stability, performance, and errors in a web 
 application.
 
+## Monitoring learning checklist
+<i class="fa fa-check-square-o"></i>
+Review the software-as-a-service and open source monitoring tools below. Third
+party services tend to be easier to set up and host the data for you. Open
+source projects give you more control but you'll need to have additional 
+servers ready for the monitoring.
+
+<i class="fa fa-check-square-o"></i>
+My recommendation is to install [New Relic](http://newrelic.com/)'s free 
+option with the trial period to see how it works with your app. It'll give you
+a good idea of the capabilities for application-level monitoring tools.
+
+<i class="fa fa-check-square-o"></i>
+As your app scales take a look at setting up one of the the open source 
+monitoring projects such as StatsD with Graphite. The combination of those
+two projects will give you fine-grained control over the system metrics 
+you're collecting and visualizing.
+
+
 ## Monitoring layers
 There are several important resources to monitor on the operating system 
 and network level of a web stack.
diff --git a/source/content/pages/10-misc/1005-change-log.markdown b/source/content/pages/10-misc/1005-change-log.markdown
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ the
 
 ## 2014
 ### May
-* Added learning checklist to operating systems and web servers pages.
+* Added learning checklist to operating systems, web servers and monitoring 
+  pages.
 * Adding more logging resources.
 * Continuing to add learning checklists to sections such as servers.
 * Moving navigation options into meta tags on markdown pages.

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