Monitoring performance with the TICK Stack

The TICK Stack was developed by InfluxData (InfluxDB) and is made of a series of integrated components that allow you to easily process time-series data generated by different services through time. TICK is an acronym that is composed of the first letters of each main product of the monitoring suite. T is for Telegraf, which collects the information we wish to obtain on our production server. I is for InfluxDB, which is a time-series database that contains the information collected by Telegraf or by any other application which is configured to do so. C is for Chronograf, a graph tool that allows us to easily understand the collected data. Finally, K is for Kapacitor, an alert automation tool.

Monitoring infrastructure performance is not only important to determine if applications and scripts are running as expected, but also allows for development of more advanced algorithms such as failure prediction and unexpected behavior pattern recognition,...