In the last posts I’ve talked about the the tools people used in monitoring and the demographics of the survey. In this post I am going to look at the question around what parts of people’s environments are monitored. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the survey got 1,116 responses of which 884 were complete. This post will cover the question: 6. What parts of your environment do you monitor? Please select all the apply.

In this series I am looking at the results of my recent monitoring survey and specifically the monitoring tools being used by respondents. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the survey got 1,116 responses of which 884 were complete. This post will cover the question: 5. What tools do you use for monitoring? (Choose all that apply) Every respondent was required to answer question five. Last year I asked about primary tools and forced respondents to select a single “primary” tool.

In an earlier post I talked about the 2015 edition of the monitoring survey and the background to it. In this post, the first of several posts analyzing the results, I am going to look at the demographics of the responses. The survey got 1,116 responses of which 884 were complete. This post will cover the questions: Which of the following best describes your IT job role? How big is your organization?

As many of you are aware I recently ran a small Monitoring survey. I ran a similar survey last year and decided to see if the results had changed. Assuming interest continues I’ll run it again next year too. Again, the intent of the survey was to understand the state of maturity across some key areas of monitoring. I was specifically interested in what sort of monitoring people were doing, some idea of why they were doing that monitoring, and what tools they were using to do that monitoring.

TL;DR - The Art of Monitoring has a sample chapter I’m writing a new book on monitoring rather illustriously called The Art of Monitoring. I’ve just released a sample chapter from the book. The chapter focuses on installing, learning and using Riemann for monitoring. The book is progressing well and I hope to have it out at the end of the year. If you’re interested in receiving updates and getting notified when the book is released you can sign up below.