Insufficient logging and monitoring - JavaScript Tutorial

- [Narrator] I can't stress this enough, If your application isn't being monitored by any tools or you get insufficient logging mechanisms in place with alerts, when something suspicious in your resources is being executed, how will you prevent hackers from completely getting control of your application or pulling data from it? Take this scenario, on average your website or application gets about 200 users per day and you allocated resources for that workload. Well, all of a sudden, your application jumps to 500 users, then 1000 or more. How will you determine if this is official user growth or a hacker sending his minions for a typical DOS attack? Monitoring and logging is key to supervise your resources, user growth and yes, hackers on the prowl towards your application. Most host providers have a decent amount of tools you can use for this purpose. And please do use them, set alerts so you get notifications for unusual…