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Maintenance and monitoring activities

Once the AEM is upgraded, its important that all the maintenance and monitoring activities should be configured to avoid and plan for any mishaps.

Here are major maintenance activities that needs to be configured -


  1. Revision clean up / TAR MK optimisation
  2. Purging
    1. Version purge
    2. Audit purge
    3. Workflow purge
  3. Consistency checks
    1. Repository consistency check
    2. Datastore consistency check
  4. Backup & restore process
  5. Indexing
  6. Datastore garbage collection
  7. Error logs cleanup
  8. Periodic restart
  9. Queries tuning

Another thing that is needed at this point of time is to configure alerts for monitoring the behaviour of upgraded instance and corresponding servers. Here are major monitoring activities that is recommended to configure -


  1. Error log monitoring
  2. Request log monitoring
  3. CPU utilisation
  4. Disk utilisation 
  5. RAM utilisation  

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