Monitoring is the most important aspect of infrastructure operations. Effective monitoring strategies help in optimizing infrastructure usage, better planning, and easy incident resolution. While monitoring preceded DevOps, DevOps has further transformed the software development process to such an extent that monitoring has to evolve as well.

Visualization and Analytics are two of the most important aspects of monitoring without which the entire data stack could just mean NOTHING. Considering the plethora of graphing tools available in the market today, selecting the right one could often be confusing. In our blogs at Metricfire, we break down the best tools in terms of their setup efforts, usage, market competitors, pricing models, best practices, and many more. Grafana and Chronograf both are among the best tools available today.