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Configuration and Change Tracking must be a key part of your Observability strategy 20230208.pdf
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Agenda
Observabilitychallenge
of Siloed IT organizations
Problem analysis Live Demo Q&A
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Essential for project
management
APM and Observability
vendors expand their
coverage
Configuration tracking
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• Performance issues caused by server/device/application
misconfiguration
• Misconfigurations have huge negative impact on performance
• Configuration errors are major cause of incidents resulting in
downtime/outages
• Configuration change management is a mandatory requirement
for regulatory compliance
Why Monitor Configuration and Change?
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Asset, Configuration & Change Tracking
Little attention Very few products offer asset
management,configurationand change
tracking
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Configuration & Change
Tracking is important
for silos
• Was a new update applied to the
application?
• Did any configuration of the application
change?
• Has the application workload changed?
• Is there a security attack going on?
• Has the network performance change?
• Did the database become slower?
• Did we hit a capacity limit in the cloud
instance?
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• On one Monday morning, an IT service owner in
a US organizationreceived a proactive alert
• Their application servers were unusually busy.
• CPU utilization had increased.
• Many of their business-critical application
servers exhibited the issue
• This had to be attended to immediately.
• The servers were running a heterogeneous mix
of Javaapplication servers.
Problem statement
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Confirm Increased Server CPU Utilization Levels
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Response time is not affected much
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Eliminate if Demand or Malicious DoS Type Attacks
are the Cause
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What had the Infrastructure Team Done?
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What had the Infrastructure Team Done?
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The Infrastructure
Team’s Analysis • The registry keys below had been updated
to disable hyperthreading:
SYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession
ManagerMemory
ManagementFeatureSettingsOverrideMask
SYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession
ManagerMemory
ManagementFeatureSettingsOverride
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Lessons
Learned
Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC)
became common
It is critical to ensure monitoring
platforms can track configuration
changes
Configuration change is part of
unified monitoring and root
cause analysis
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