16.3. Potential Impact on Server Performance

Theoretically, there is no limit to the number of metrics that can collected or the number of alerts that can be fired.

In reality, there are natural constraints within the IT environment that limit both monitoring and alert settings:

There are no hard limits on JBoss ON's alerting and monitoring configuration since it depends on the number of resources, number of metrics, collection frequency, and the number of alerts.

As a rule of thumb, there are these performance thresholds:

Plan how to implement metrics collection and alerting. Prioritize resources and then the information required from those resources when enabling metrics schedules and setting collection frequencies. Then, based on those priorities, plan what alerts are required.

Clear monitoring and alerting strategies can help maintain performance while still gathering critical information.