Understanding workload health
Define, capture, and analyze workload metrics to gain visibility to workload events so that you can take appropriate action.
Your team should be able to understand the health of your workload easily. You will want to use metrics based on workload outcomes to gain useful insights. You should use these metrics to implement dashboards with business and technical viewpoints that will help team members make informed decisions.
AWS makes it easy to bring together and analyze your workload logs so that you can generate metrics, understand the health of your workload, and gain insight from operations over time.
Best practices
- OPS08-BP01 Identify key performance indicators
- OPS08-BP02 Define workload metrics
- OPS08-BP03 Collect and analyze workload metrics
- OPS08-BP04 Establish workload metrics baselines
- OPS08-BP05 Learn expected patterns of activity for workload
- OPS08-BP06 Alert when workload outcomes are at risk
- OPS08-BP07 Alert when workload anomalies are detected
- OPS08-BP08 Validate the achievement of outcomes and the effectiveness of KPIs and metrics