# Operate
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| DRHCOPS05: Which metrics do you need to understand your workload and operational health? | 
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 For Local Zones and Outposts, focus on establishing similar observability and alerting capabilities as in an Availability Zone. 

To understand the workload and operational health of your Local Zones and Outposts, you should focus on establishing similar observability and alerting capabilities as in an Availability Zone. For Local Zones, this involves implementing comprehensive monitoring and alerting at both the infrastructure and application layers. For Outposts, you should also account for the shared responsibility model by adding alerts for security, networking, and capacity management.


| DRHCOPS06: How do you consistently perform incident response and remediation practices across your organization's different teams and projects to operate your hybrid edge environment? | 
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 Develop a well-defined process for each alert generated by monitoring systems for Outposts and Local Zone workloads, clearly identifying the responsible teams and their respective incident response and remediation procedures. 

**Topics**
+ [DRHCOPS05-BP01 Understand monitoring requirements in your Local Zones](drhcops05-bp01.md)
+ [DRHCOPS05-BP02 Understand monitoring requirements in your Outposts](drhcops05-bp02.md)
+ [DRHCOPS06-BP01 Develop a process for each alert that you defined for your Outposts and Local Zone workloads](drhcops06-bp01.md)