10 Network Monitoring Books You Need to Read in 2018

There are a wide variety of books available on network monitoring, but selecting the one that is right for you and users inside your organization can be a tough task. Solutions Review has taken the liberty of doing the research for you, having reviewed a multitude of these books. We’ve carefully selected the top books based on relevance, popularity, review ratings, publish date, and ability to add business value.

The Art of Monitoring

“A hands-on and introductory guide to the art of modern application and infrastructure monitoring and metrics. We start small and then build on what you learn to scale out to multi-site, multi-tier applications.”

Security Solutions for AWS: Understanding Network Security and Performance Monitoring for Amazon Web Services

“AWS has radically changed IT and the changes are mostly beneficial. But there are some hidden areas that do require special care, and you will find those addressed in this book.”

Building Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform: A Guide for Developers and Enterprise Architects

“Network security is not simply about building impenetrable walls — determined attackers will eventually overcome traditional defenses. The most effective computer security strategies integrate network security monitoring (NSM): the collection and analysis of data to help you detect and respond to intrusions.”

Applied Network Security Monitoring: Collection, Detection, and Analysis

“Applied Network Security Monitoring is the essential guide to becoming an NSM analyst from the ground up. This book takes a fundamental approach, complete with real-world examples that teach you the key concepts of NSM.”

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

“The DevOps Handbook shows leaders how to replicate these incredible outcomes, by showing how to integrate Product Management, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Information Security to elevate your company and win in the marketplace.”

The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery: Delivering Software in Days

“The book champions the concept of Continuous Delivery in enabling organizations to build automated software delivery platforms for releasing high-quality applications faster.”

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

“The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems?”

Network Monitoring – Tools & Techniques

“This guide contains tutorials on network monitoring with different types of tools like wireshark, netstat, custom utilities etc. The guide is ideal for network engineers who would want to understand the different techniques and utilities which can be used for network monitoring activities.”

The Tao of Network Security Monitoring

“In The Tao of Network Security Monitoring , Richard Bejtlich explores the products, people, and processes that implement the NSM model. By focusing on case studies and the application of open source tools, he helps you gain hands-on knowledge of how to better defend networks and how to mitigate damage from security incidents.”

Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time

“In this collection of essays and interviews, web veterans such as Theo Schlossnagle, Baron Schwartz, and Alistair Croll offer insights into this evolving field. You’ll learn stories from the trenches–from builders of some of the biggest sites on the Web–on what’s necessary to help a site thrive.”