# Ops + monitoring

> Operations resources that sit above any one platform. OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and observability, the SRE books and the sysadmin communities.

Source: https://ali.id.au/practices/running/ops-monitoring/ (last edited 2026-10-12)

## Monitoring and observability

* [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/)
* [App Insights](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/app/app-insights-overview) - Azure APM
* [Sentry](https://sentry.io/) - error tracking and performance monitoring
* [New Relic](https://newrelic.com/) - observability platform
* [Raygun](https://raygun.com/) - crash reporting and APM
* [PostHog](https://posthog.com/) - open-source product analytics
* [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) - monitoring and alerting
* [Grafana](https://grafana.com/) - observability dashboards

## Reading

* [The Phoenix Project](https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592)
* [Site Reliability Engineering books](https://sre.google/books/)

## Communities

* [/r/sysadmin](https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/) + [WinAdmins discord](https://discord.gg/winadmins)

See also: [DevOps](/practices/building/devops-automation/) for CI/CD and version control, and [Running](/practices/running/) for each platform's administration pages.