02. Monitoring and Logging Overview
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Monitoring and Logging Overview
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Big Picture Summary
Recap:
- Monitoring is much more than alerts for malicious behavior.
- Monitoring your system performance lets you catch problems before they become catastrophic.
- Proactive monitoring allows you to scale your systems gracefully to take advantage of opportunities.
Key Terms
- Vulnerability Scanning: is an automated threat that uses bots or web crawlers to identify security weaknesses in your website and underlying architecture.
- Scalability: is the ability of a computing system to grow or expand gracefully.
It's important to monitor and log to ensure we know what is happening on our network so we can both react and be proactive with security and stability.