Rico Mariani’s Performance Tidbits : Rico’s Instrumentation Aphorisms

Judiciously added instrumentation allows you to more easily pinpoint the states that lead to poor performance or failure. Well designed events inform monitoring software and IT admins about whether the software is operating normally, in a degraded state, or has failed completely. Good tracing events in conjunction with perf counters related to the work of the software allow diagnosis and tracking of trends. Events targeted to the administrator can identify what work was being done for which user context when a failure occurs.