On: Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?

[arcbyte]

Whatever directly and naterially affects affects cost and that's it.

For some of my services on DigitalOcean for instance, I monitor RAM because using a smaller instance can dramatically save money.

But for the most part I don't monitor anything - if it doesn't make me money why do I care?

[hinkley → arcbyte]

I have a list of things I look at every few weeks to see if we’ve developed any new bad habits that are going to bite us.

Open feedback loops make it difficult for people to adjust their behavior. Catching the bad habits early makes them a lot more shallow.