This document discusses the importance of monitoring in DevOps. It provides examples of metrics to monitor like response times, errors, user behavior etc. and how to collect and visualize this data. Open source tools like CollectD, Graphite, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, InfluxDB and Grafana are recommended for collection, storage and visualization of monitoring data. The document emphasizes making decisions based on facts obtained from monitoring and continuous improvement.