Monitoring & Alerts#

For: System administrators and DevOps teams

This guide covers monitoring OpenSPP in production environments, including logging, metrics collection, alerting, and performance tuning.

Topics Covered#

  • Logging: Configuring and managing application logs

    • Log levels and configuration

    • Log aggregation (ELK, Splunk, etc.)

    • Log rotation and retention

    • Structured logging

  • Metrics: Collecting and visualizing system metrics

    • Application metrics

    • Database performance metrics

    • Infrastructure metrics

    • Custom metrics

    • Integration with Prometheus, Grafana, etc.

  • Alerting: Setting up alerts for critical events

    • Alert rules and thresholds

    • Notification channels (email, Slack, PagerDuty)

    • Alert escalation

    • On-call procedures

  • Performance Tuning: Optimizing OpenSPP performance

    • Database query optimization

    • Application profiling

    • Resource utilization

    • Caching strategies

    • Load testing

  • Health Checks: Monitoring system health

    • Endpoint monitoring

    • Service availability

    • Dependency health checks

  • Dashboards: Creating operational dashboards

    • System overview dashboards

    • Application-specific dashboards

    • Custom reporting

Note: Content coming soon. This section is being developed as part of the V2 documentation restructure.