[Tutorial Description and Summary](description.html)
## Tutorial Topics ##
* Scalable Network Monitoring and Management. Present day practices and how they differ from classical monitoring
* Examples of tools used, traditional and modern, some of the tools we'll discuss and/or demo include:
* Accessing our platform
* SmokePing
* Nagios
* LibreNMS
* NetFlow-NG
* Working with the Prometheus Stack and other Tools
* Use of PromQL
* Using Grafana with Prometheus
* Using AlertManager with Prometheus
* Philosophy of Scalable Monitoring and Management version:
* The fundamental distinction between "logs" and "metrics"
* Concept of labels for timeseries
* Counters versus gauges.
* Scalable NMM Tools separate out:
* data collection
* data storage and querying (optimised either for timeseries storage or for log indexing/querying)
* data visualisation
* alerting
* Tools such as Elastalert, AlertManager
* Issue of too many alerts, which is very bad
* ElastiFlow for network flows
* Grafana Loki for logging data
## Useful Links ##
* [Instructors](instructors.html)
* [Reference Materials](references.html)
## Diagrams ##
* [Server and Network Device Access by Group](diagrams/nmm-groups-diagram-oob.png)
* [Class Topology Overview](diagrams/nmm-topology-overview-high-level.png)
* [Campus 1 Detailed](diagrams/nmm-campus1-detailed.png)
* [Campus 1 Detailed with Addresses](diagrams/nmm-campus1-detailed-with-addresses.png)
