> Yes, you should still be looking at your logs, but I believe that what's
> more critical is that you monitor the service *from the user's point of > view*, and that monitoring should reflect the users' experiences as > closely as possible. If you do that, you'll know when things are wrong > without having to look at the logs and say something like "oh, we alsl > need to add <string1> and <string2> to the 'this is an error' list." > I have to disagree: when serving 1000 users per time frame, and one of them has a problem, there's less than 1% probability your monitoring checks will notice, and about 100% your logging will. Depending on the number of users, 1 in 1000 might be too many. Hans
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