Here are 100 chapter titles for a New Relic learning journey with a focus on operating systems, progressing from beginner to advanced:
I. Foundations of New Relic and OS Monitoring (1-20)
- Introduction to New Relic: APM and Infrastructure Monitoring
- Understanding the New Relic Platform and its Capabilities
- Setting up Your New Relic Account and Agent
- Installing and Configuring the New Relic Infrastructure Agent
- Key Metrics for OS Performance Monitoring
- Understanding CPU Utilization: Metrics and Interpretation
- Memory Management in Operating Systems and New Relic Metrics
- Disk I/O Performance: Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Network Performance Monitoring with New Relic
- Process Monitoring: Identifying Resource Hogs
- Log Management with New Relic: Centralized Log Analysis
- Alerting and Notifications: Setting Up Thresholds and Triggers
- Dashboards and Visualizations: Creating Custom Views
- Introduction to New Relic Query Language (NRQL)
- Understanding New Relic Events
- New Relic Integrations with Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- New Relic Integrations with Container Orchestrators (Kubernetes, Docker)
- New Relic for Serverless Monitoring
- Getting Started with New Relic Documentation and Resources
- Best Practices for New Relic Deployment and Configuration
II. CPU Monitoring and Analysis (21-35)
- CPU Utilization Metrics: User, System, Idle, Iowait
- CPU Saturation and Queue Length
- Context Switching and its Impact on Performance
- Identifying CPU Bottlenecks
- Analyzing CPU Usage by Process
- CPU Profiling with New Relic
- CPU Scheduling and its Effects
- Multi-Core CPU Performance Analysis
- CPU Caching and its Impact
- NUMA Architecture and Performance
- Troubleshooting High CPU Utilization
- Optimizing CPU Usage
- CPU Steal Time in Virtualized Environments
- CPU Throttling and its Detection
- Advanced CPU Performance Analysis Techniques
III. Memory Monitoring and Management (36-50)
- Memory Usage Metrics: Used, Free, Cached, Buffers
- Virtual Memory and Swapping
- Memory Leaks: Detection and Diagnosis
- Memory Fragmentation
- Out-of-Memory (OOM) Errors: Troubleshooting and Prevention
- Memory Allocation and Deallocation
- Garbage Collection and its Impact on Performance
- Memory Mapping and Shared Memory
- Memory Tuning and Optimization
- Memory Pressure and its Detection
- Memory Ballooning in Virtualized Environments
- Memory Limits and Cgroups
- Memory Analysis Tools and Techniques
- Memory Forensics
- Advanced Memory Management Concepts
IV. Disk I/O Monitoring and Performance (51-65)
- Disk I/O Metrics: Read/Write Operations, Latency, Throughput
- Disk Space Utilization and Fragmentation
- RAID Levels and their Performance Implications
- Disk Scheduling Algorithms
- Identifying Disk I/O Bottlenecks
- Analyzing Disk I/O by Process
- File System Performance
- Network File Systems (NFS) Performance
- Storage Area Networks (SAN) Performance
- Solid State Drives (SSDs) vs. Hard Disk Drives (HDDs)
- Disk I/O Tuning and Optimization
- Asynchronous I/O
- Direct I/O
- Disk I/O Queues and Saturation
- Advanced Disk I/O Performance Analysis
V. Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting (66-80)
- Network Interface Metrics: Traffic, Errors, Drops
- Network Protocols and their Performance
- Network Latency and Packet Loss
- Network Bandwidth and Throughput
- Network Congestion and its Detection
- Network Security Monitoring
- DNS Performance Monitoring
- Load Balancing and its Monitoring
- Firewall Performance Monitoring
- Network Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques
- Network Traffic Analysis
- TCP/IP Performance Tuning
- Network Virtualization and its Monitoring
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Monitoring
- Advanced Network Performance Analysis
VI. Process Monitoring and Management (81-90)
- Process States and Lifecycle
- Process Resource Consumption: CPU, Memory, Disk, Network
- Process Dependencies and Interactions
- Identifying Zombie Processes and Orphan Processes
- Process Profiling and Tracing
- Process Management Tools and Techniques
- System Calls and their Monitoring
- Container Monitoring with New Relic
- Process Security and Isolation
- Advanced Process Management Concepts
VII. Log Management and Analysis (91-95)
- Log Collection and Aggregation
- Log Parsing and Indexing
- Log Search and Analysis
- Log-Based Alerting and Notifications
- Log Correlation and Event Correlation
VIII. Advanced New Relic and OS Topics (96-100)
- Custom Instrumentation and Metrics
- New Relic APIs and Integrations
- New Relic for Distributed Tracing
- Automating OS Monitoring with New Relic
- Advanced New Relic Query Language (NRQL) Techniques