Monitoring
This folder is for in-house IT teams, security officers and service owners who must know whether a public website is healthy, available and safe, and be able to show it. Exponential brings much of the instrumentation itself (logs with digests, request classification, a hash-chained audit trail with alerts, health checks); these pages show how to use it and what to add from outside.
Contents
Pages
| Page | Answers |
|---|---|
| Monitoring overview | Which question is answered where; signals for your monitoring system; a routine. |
| The log viewer | Reading, following and searching logs with personal data masked. |
| Error digest and log health | The daily summary of distinct errors; disk, growth and permissions of logs. |
| Request logs: 404 and security | Not-found answers and suspected attacks, apart from real faults. |
| CSP reports | Collecting Content Security Policy reports before enforcing. |
| Audit alerts | The seven shipped rules, recipients, tuning, routing to a security team. |
| Audit trail verification | Proving the record is intact; what to do when a chain breaks. |
| Cronjob monitoring | What stops when cron stops, and how to notice. |
| System information and health checks | The health checks and the support report. |
| Upgrade check as a monitor | Scheduled file integrity checks against the release manifest. |
| External uptime monitoring | Checking the site as citizens reach it. |
| Log retention and rotation | Default periods and how to set your own. |
Reading order
- Monitoring overview.
- External uptime monitoring and System information and health checks: up and healthy.
- The log viewer, Error digest and log health, Cronjob monitoring: daily operation.
- Security: Request logs, Audit alerts, Audit trail verification, CSP reports, Upgrade check as a monitor.
- Log retention and rotation with your records and data protection colleagues.
Up: Running Exponential in the public sector. The section landing page is Governments: start here.
Related pages
- Incidents
- Operations tasks
- Monitoring overview (hosting)
- Security and audit guide
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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