Getting started with monitoring software will take you up the hierarchy of needs, from getting alerts about the things users complain about before the users complain about them all the way up to advanced warnings that will let you know long enough to plan to avoid trouble. And you can do it all with open source. Groundwork founder Thomas Stocking explains the steps for getting started (16:58).
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