References and related reading

Related to the code in this chapter, the following are links to documentation for frameworks, programming languages, and other code.

  1. Sinatra is a web framework for Ruby and has excellent online documentation at http://sinatrarb.com/
  2. The StatsD Ruby library documentation is at http://www.rubydoc.info/github/reinh/statsd/Statsd
  3. I am using Ruby 2.5.0, whose documentation is at https://ruby-doc.org/core–2.5.0/
  4. An overview of StatsD—https://github.com/etsy/statsd/
  5. The Prometheus Go client documentation—https://godoc.org/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus
  6. The Go language documentation—https://golang.org/doc/
  7. An overview of Prometheus—https://prometheus.io/
  8. Oxford Dictionaries (https://en.oxforddictionaries. com/definition/monitor)

Future reading

No book should ever be the sum of all knowledge. It is impossible. As I mentioned earlier, there are many monitoring philosophies, and while the following books and websites touch on some of them, neither my chapter, nor these other books are the be all and end all.