Clear DefinitionsMonitoring Service
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Pronunciation
[mon-i-ter-ing sur-vis]
Analogy
Like a security guard on patrol who checks every door and window regularly and raises the alarm if something is amiss.
Definition
A background system that continuously collects, processes, and evaluates health and performance data from blockchain infrastructure, issuing alerts or automated responses when issues arise.
Key Points Intro
Monitoring services provide automated oversight and incident detection for blockchain operations.
Key Points
Data collection: Gathers logs, metrics, and traces from nodes and applications.
Rule engine: Evaluates conditions and thresholds for alerting.
Notification: Integrates with email, Slack, PagerDuty for incident response.
Auto‑remediation: Executes scripts or workflows to recover from common failures.
Example
Technical Deep Dive
Uses an agent (Prometheus node_exporter) to scrape system metrics, Fluentd to forward logs to Elasticsearch, and a custom Python service that runs anomaly detection and triggers Kubernetes pod restarts via the API.
Caveat
Automated remediation can exacerbate issues if misconfigured; always include human‑in‑the‑loop for critical paths.
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