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Recently in our Better Incidents Slack channel, there’s been some chatter around how people structure dedicated incident commanders at their company: distributed or centralized. The way I see it, there are two types of commanders: the temporary, distributed role — a hat that an on-call engineer or an engineering manager puts on during an incident. Then there’s the centralized, full-time role, where someone is the designated incident commander (or one of a few) for all incidents.

Network topology mapping is the process of mapping topological relationships between network components and establishing those relationships in the form of network diagrams. Network mapping helps visualize physical and logical connections between all elements and nodes, thus simplifying network management. A network topology mapper is a tool that helps perform network mapping effectively.

Managing containerized applications efficiently in the dynamic realm of Kubernetes is essential for smooth deployments and optimal performance. Kubernetes empowers us with powerful orchestration capabilities, enabling seamless scaling and deployment of applications. However, in real-world scenarios, there are situations that necessitate the restarting of Pods, whether to apply configuration changes, recover from failures, or address misbehaving applications.

This article will outline what Redis database monitoring is and how to set up a Redis database monitoring system with MetricFire. Then we’ll show what the final graphs and dashboards look like when displayed on Grafana. We will be using Prometheus and Grafana to power the monitoring, and we'll use a simulated Redis DB to generate the data for the Grafana dashboards. ‍ ‍