Glossary

Observability & DevOps Glossary

Plain-language definitions of the monitoring, observability and security terms engineering teams use every day.

  • AIOps

    AIOps (Artificial intelligence for IT operations ) refers to multi-layered technological systems that automate and improve IT operations using analytics and machine learning (ML).

  • AWS Monitoring

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) monitoring is a set of procedures for ensuring the security and performance of your AWS resources and data. To acquire, analyse, and communicate data insights, these practices require a variety of tools and services.

  • Cloud Performance Management

    The activity of evaluating various metrics and benchmarks for cloud systems is known as cloud performance management. It's used to figure out how well a cloud system is working and where improvements might be made.

  • Container

    Containers are executable software units in which application code, as well as its libraries and dependencies, are packed in standard ways and run anywhere, including on a desktop, in traditional IT, and in the cloud.

  • Continuous Monitoring

    In the DevOps and IT operations lifecycles, Continuous Monitoring is a mechanism for monitoring and identifying compliance and security risks.

  • DevOps

    DevOps (a combination of "development" and "operations") is a set of techniques and tools designed to help an organization deliver applications and services faster than traditional software development procedures.

  • Incident Management

    The end-to-end business process of dealing with an outage, service disruption, or other large incidents from its inception to completion is known as incident management.

  • Incident Response

    The process through which an organization addresses a data breach or cyberattack, including how the company seeks to control the consequences of the attack or breach, is referred to as incident response.

  • Kubernetes

    Kubernetes, sometimes known as K8s for short, is an open-source solution for containerized online applications that automates deployment and dynamic scaling.

  • Load Balancer

    A load balancer may take the form of a physical device, a virtualized instance running on bespoke hardware, or a software process.

  • Log Analysis

    The process of deciphering computer-generated log messages, also known as log events, audit trail data, or simply logs, is known as log analysis.

  • Log File

    A log file is a file that contains a list of events that a computer has "logged." They are records that include system-related information.

  • Microservices

    Microservices are an architectural approach in software development that organises systems as a collection of loosely connected services, making it easier for developers to create and grow applications.

  • Network Performance Management (NPM)

    Network Performance Management (NPM) is a set of techniques for managing, enabling, and ensuring that a computer network runs at its best.

  • Network Traffic Analysis

    Network traffic analysis is a technique for gathering, storing, and examining network traffic.

  • Prometheus Monitoring

    Prometheus Monitoring is a dependable way to collect and process metrics from machines and applications. Prometheus is an open-source tool that provides monitoring and alerting for cloud-native systems, such as Kubernetes.

  • Real-Time Dashboard

    A Real-Time Dashboard is a data visualization that is automatically updated with the most recent data and is used to track, analyze, and report on real-time data.

  • Root Cause Analysis

    Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a method of analyzing major problems before attempting to fix them. It involves isolating and identifying the problem's fundamental root cause.

  • SaaS Monitoring

    SaaS Monitoring is an off-premises monitoring application that allows enterprises to monitor their applications and environment from anywhere in the world.

  • Server Monitoring

    Server monitoring is the process of acquiring visibility into the actions on your servers, whether physical or virtual. Servers are equipment that store and process data that is made available on-demand to other devices, applications, or users.

  • Serverless

    Serverless computing is a design and deployment paradigm for event-driven applications in which computing resources are given as scalable cloud services.

  • SIEM

    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a single security management system that collects and analyses data from a variety of sources throughout your IT infrastructure to offer full visibility into activity within your network in real-time.

  • Storage Monitoring

    The activity of tracking the performance, availability, and overall health of physical and virtual storage systems is known as storage monitoring or storage performance monitoring.

  • Synthetic Transaction Monitoring

    Synthetic Transaction Monitoring is made to execute simulated tests or checks to follow crucial workflows or transactions comprising numerous steps.