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GridGain 8 Management and Monitoring Guide

Former Head of Developer Relations at GridGain
Apache Ignite Committer and PMC Member

This guide shows how to monitor and manage GridGain 8 clusters in production. It covers the core tasks: monitoring storage and cluster health, configuring alerts, tracing operations to troubleshoot performance, and creating cluster backups.

You work through these on a local setup: you deploy a GridGain 8 cluster and connect it to GridGain Control Center, then run common management and monitoring scenarios. By the end, you understand the main GridGain management and monitoring workflows and have a working local environment.

Start with the demo application, then continue through the monitoring, alerting, tracing, and backup tasks: