Best way to document monitoring setups for future troubleshooting?

[alishawinson]

I’ve been setting up monitoring for a few cloud instances and noticed that I sometimes forget the exact steps or configurations I used when I need to troubleshoot later. Recently, I started recording short clips from cepcutapk while configuring things (dashboards, triggers, etc.) just so I can go back and review them if needed. I usually trim and organize these clips quickly in CapCut so they’re easier to follow later.
Curious how others handle this — do you rely on written documentation only, or do you also record your setup process in some way? Any tips for making troubleshooting easier down the line?

[hrrapozo]

Started off with Microsoft OneNote to do things like Discovery rules. One thing I have learned when documenting the rules is to log the server's VPS (Values per second) display from the Global View dashboard before and after a discovery.

Also using Google Core Aps (Docs, Slides, Draw and Sheets) for various things since I need to share with my co-workers on things. For example using Google Docs for an operation log to document the weird stuff that happens to the servers I handle. The Google Slides document will show the results of one dashboard display (System information widget and a few item value widgets) once a week. One Google Sheets document has the various GPS locations for either host items, or building locations.