Goals of this guide

If you're going to rely on any enterprise application in production, there are certain things you expect: the ability to run backups, to fail over to a standby system in case the primary fails ... and the ability to monitor the application to make sure it's healthy, or alert you when it isn't.

This guide will show you how to monitor Vault and Consul. The main topics include:

• How to set up a monitoring stack (in this case: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana).
• How to configure Vault and Consul to send telemetry to a monitoring agent.
• Which metrics are important to monitor, and why.

But first, let's explain what we mean by monitoring.