# Operational excellence
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 The operational excellence pillar includes the ability to support development and run workloads effectively, gain insight into your operations, and continually improve supporting processes and procedures that deliver business value. 

**Topics**
+ [1 – Monitor the health of the analytics application workload](design-principle-1.md)
+ [2 – Modernize deployment of the analytics jobs and applications](design-principle-2.md)