How to: ![✔] 5.1. Monitoring
**TL;DR:** Monitoring is a game of finding out issues before customers do – obviously this should be assigned unprecedented importance. The market is overwhelmed with offers thus consider starting with defining the basic metrics you must follow (my suggestions inside), then go over additional fancy features and choose the solution that ticks all boxes. In any case, the 4 layers of observability must be covered: uptime, metrics with focus on user-facing symptoms and Node.js technical metrics like event loop lag, distributed flows measurement with Open Telemetry and logging. Click ‘Read More’ below for an overview of the solutions

**Otherwise:** Failure === disappointed customers. Simple

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