what do i even need?
As technology evolves, more and more techniques are flooding the market, some of them being a temporary hype, others establishing over the years into a decent sector of it’s own.
If your IT is about to change, you might be unsure if your current technology stack is still fitting your needs, or if you want to reconstruct parts of it to stay up to date. Is it still the best way to have your datacenter filled up with dedicated servers or would it spare time and money to virtualize some of your applications? Perhaps even run them in a container and manage those via Kubernetes? Perhaps it would relax your IT if users and developers could have a pool of virtual hardware and build up new application instances on their own via some selfservice portal?
Those solutions can’t be universally recommended for everyone. So a decent in depth analysis of your current IT situation as well as your needs regarding flexibility, cost and scalability needs to be done first to avoid unneccessary effort.
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watch your IT doing fine
Even the best setup needs adjustments from time to time. The best way to keep track of your IT landscape is having a proper monitoring setup. You should immediately see when a harddisk is running out of space, a process is eating up all your CPU power or the overall load raises since you launched a new product.
Therefore, established monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix, AppDynamics or ELK can help you keep track of the availability and performance of your system. And since watching on graphs and numbers can be quite boring after some time, why not set some automatic alerts to inform you via Mail, Phone or SMS once the performance or availablity reaches a critical limit and you should react soon?