Ansible - Infrastructure Monitoring [CPU,Memory,Disk]

Set Up Monitoring for CPU, Memory, and Disk Usage Using Ansible Playbooks

1. Why We Need This Use Case

Monitoring infrastructure components such as CPU, memory, and disk usage is essential for ensuring the health, performance, and stability of IT systems. Effective monitoring helps in detecting potential issues before they escalate, optimizing resource utilization, and maintaining overall system reliability. Automating this process with Ansible playbooks provides consistent, repeatable, and scalable monitoring solutions across multiple servers, reducing manual configuration efforts and ensuring comprehensive visibility into infrastructure performance.

2. When We Need This Use Case

• Performance Optimization: When you need to regularly assess and optimize system performance based on CPU, memory, and disk usage metrics.

• Issue Detection: To proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks or resource exhaustion issues.

• Capacity Planning: To gather data for capacity planning and resource scaling decisions.

• System Health Checks: When maintaining system health and ensuring that critical thresholds are monitored.

• Automated Monitoring: To implement automated and consistent monitoring setups across a large number of servers.

3. Prerequisites for the Lab