--- title: Everything in software monitoring is dead, apparently description: The world of DevOps and SRE is constantly changing, with new buzzwords and definitions emerging. However, the practical implications for practitioners remain... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/everything-in-software-monitoring-is-dead-apparently-3cen5x6qy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Everything in software monitoring is dead, apparently | daily.dev og:description: The world of DevOps and SRE is constantly changing, with new buzzwords and definitions emerging. However, the practical implications for practitioners remain... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/everything-in-software-monitoring-is-dead-apparently-3cen5x6qy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3ceN5X6QY.png og:image:alt: Everything in software monitoring is dead, apparently og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Everything in software monitoring is dead, apparently **[Last9](https://daily.dev/sources/last9)** · 3 min read · 6 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The world of DevOps and SRE is constantly changing, with new buzzwords and definitions emerging. However, the practical implications for practitioners remain the same. Monitoring complex distributed systems is hard and requires an engineering mindset. The basics of good monitoring, such as instrumenting metrics and fixing alert fatigue, are often overlooked. The author advocates for outsourcing the management of monitoring systems so engineers can focus on building the product. Despite the marketing hype, these problems are likely to persist in the future. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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