Upgrading to SQL Server 2016

Is your application easy to monitor in production? Many are, but sadly, some applications are designed with observability as an afterthought. Consequences include problems such as:

• It’s cost prohibitive to monitor and troubleshoot the app in production.
• Developers don’t know how the app works, so changes are riskier and costlier. 
• No existing systems can monitor the app, so you’re forced to develop something custom. 
• The app’s instrumentation is lacking, incompatible with popular monitoring systems, or impossible to correlate with other metrics. 
• Adding instrumentation is impossible, limiting visibility. 
• People, processes, and systems related to monitoring and observability become a productivity bottleneck, leading to shipping code more slowly with more frequent and costly problems.

Observability is one of the most important factors of building and running services successfully at scale. It’s best to build it in from the start, just like backups, security, auditability, and so on. In this way, you can make tradeoffs and plan proactively, instead of accidentally. 

This eBook collects the experience of a variety of experienced architects and combines it with what customers have taught us about observability