Content

• 4.5 Performance Monitoring Workshop
  • Overview and Objectives
    • Learning Objectives
    • Prerequisites
  • Key Topics
    • System Resource Monitoring: CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network
    • Performance Analysis Tools: sar, iostat, and vmstat
    • Load Average Interpretation and Significance
    • Identifying and Diagnosing Performance Bottlenecks
    • Custom Monitoring Concepts and Alerting Strategies
  • Real-world Context
  • Common Pitfalls
  • Recommended Reading
• Lab Exercises
  • Lab Overview
  • Lab Exercise 1: Resource Monitoring Setup
  • Lab Exercise 2: Real-time Performance Analysis
  • Lab Exercise 3: Historical Data Analysis with sar
  • Lab Exercise 4: Performance Bottleneck Simulation and Diagnosis
  • Lab Exercise 5: Introduction to Monitoring Automation Concepts
  • Lab Cleanup
  • Troubleshooting Guide
  • Assessment
    • Multiple Choice Questions
    • Short Answer Questions

This chapter is available exclusively to members of The Server Room, my DevOps community of practice. You have multiple options for taking this course, for example self-guided or instructor-led. Check out the course details to learn more!