# Why Monitoring

##### Why Monitoring

Sample #1

- Know when things go wrong 
    - Detection & Alerting
- Be able to debug and gain insight
- Detect changes over time and drive technical/business decisions
- Feed into other system/processes (e.g. security, automation)

Sample #2

- Monitoring is used to assess performance of services & applications
- Timely detection of issues and preventing failures
- Capacity planning

##### Presentation Videos

- [Infrastructure and application monitoring using Prometheus by Marco Pas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GYe_-qqP30)