John Vincent aka. lusis has started an interesting conversation surrounding monitoring on Freenode on channel he named ##monitoringsucks. He has also done an awesome job of starting up a Github project of the same name that is shaping up to be a nice collection of links to tools and blog posts. Check it out
https://github.com/monitoringsucks/
Also we just got a hold of the monitoring anti-patterns Ignite Talk from Devopsdays Boston by Alexis Lê-Quôc aka. @alq. It is a short video (5 minutes) so it’s definitely worth seeing.