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Jason Myerscough
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Jason Myerscough

Jason Myerscough is a director of Site Reliability Engineering and cloud architect at Nuance Communications. He has been working with Azure daily since 2015. He has migrated his company's flagship product to Azure and designed the environment to be secure and scalable across 16 different Azure regions by applying cloud best practices and governance. He is currently certified as an Azure Administrator (AZ-103) and an Azure DevOps Expert (AZ-400). He holds a first-class bachelor's degree with honors in software engineering and a first class master’s degree in computing.
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Introducing monitoring and troubleshooting

Before diving into monitoring and troubleshooting ADX, it is worth spending some time introducing the concepts of monitoring and troubleshooting.

There is no consensus on one definition for monitoring. Engineers have various backgrounds and different interests, and if you were to ask 10 engineers for a definition of monitoring, you would probably get 15 different answers. From my perspective, monitoring is a tool that aids with troubleshooting and allows us to measure and observe system behavior. I like to use the analogy of a compass, whereby monitoring is leading us to issues and giving insights into overall behavior, health, and performance.

Monitoring can typically be broken down into four functions: alerting, debugging, trends, and plumbing. I tend to agree with this but would like to extend on the plumbing aspects. Here's an overview of these functions:

  • Alerting: Being able to notify engineers when issues occur. There...
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Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801078542

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Jason Myerscough

Jason Myerscough is a director of Site Reliability Engineering and cloud architect at Nuance Communications. He has been working with Azure daily since 2015. He has migrated his company's flagship product to Azure and designed the environment to be secure and scalable across 16 different Azure regions by applying cloud best practices and governance. He is currently certified as an Azure Administrator (AZ-103) and an Azure DevOps Expert (AZ-400). He holds a first-class bachelor's degree with honors in software engineering and a first class master’s degree in computing.
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