Checking the health of the Internet
· 7 min read
I was out for a long walk over the weekend and I have now got a rather nasty blister on my heel. If you'd configured a health check just to monitor my feet, I'd be marked as dead right now.
3 posts tagged with "Monitoring"
System and network monitoring techniques, tools, and best practices
View All TagsCloud Readiness Assessment Methodology
· 38 min read
My Perspective
After 20+ years implementing network and cloud infrastructure across finance, retail, healthcare, and public sector, I've seen a clear pattern: cloud success strongly links to an organisation's readiness. Yet surprisingly few organisations do thorough readiness checks before starting their cloud journey.
From Network Blame to Platform Teams
· 4 min read
Rethinking Infrastructure Support
In IT operations, there's a metric that network teams know all too well: Mean Time to Innocence (MTTI). It's how long it takes for a network team to prove they're not responsible for an outage or performance issue. While that might sound funny, it highlights a serious problem in how we structure our infrastructure teams.