The reliability of digital services directly depends on how well a company monitors the state of its IT infrastructure. Servers, network equipment, virtual machines, applications, and databases must work in concert, and problems must be detected before they lead to a serious failure. To solve such problems, the "Astra Monitoring" software monitoring platform is used.
The platform is designed for comprehensive monitoring of the IT infrastructure and combines work with metrics, logs and traces in one interface. This allows specialists to get a holistic view of the state of the systems and quickly identify the source of problems.
Unified Monitoring Center
A modern infrastructure can simultaneously use physical servers, virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, network equipment, and various business applications. It is inconvenient to control each component using a separate tool: the information is distributed among several systems, and incident diagnosis takes longer.
"Astra Monitoring" provides a single surveillance management center. The platform supports monitoring of server and network equipment, Docker, Kubernetes, virtual machines, Linux and Windows workstations, business services and applications, as well as products of the "Astra Group" ecosystem.
Metrics, logs, and traces
One of the advantages of integrated monitoring is the ability to analyze different types of data simultaneously. Metrics help to assess resource utilization and performance, logs allow you to study events occurring inside systems, and traces help determine the path of operations and find a problem area in a distributed application or network.
The platform supports Prometheus and OpenTelemetry technologies, and uses modern components for data storage and processing, including ClickHouse and VictoriaMetrics. Deployment is possible in Kubernetes and Docker environments.
Automation of control
A large volume of notifications can be a separate problem for the IT service. If the system sends messages for every minor event, it's easy to lose really important incidents among the numerous warnings. "Astra Monitoring" provides mechanisms for deduplication of events and intelligent notifications to make infrastructure control more manageable.
The system also uses agents that are installed on controlled hosts. They can run exporters, connect endpoints, work with SNMP and IPMI, as well as collect logs and traces. Monitors allow you to