Beginning Helidon: Building Cloud-Native Microservices and Applications

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D. Kornilov et al.Beginning Helidonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9473-4_4

4. Observability

Dmitry Kornilov¹  , Daniel Kec¹ and Dmitry Aleksandrov²

(1)

Praha, Czech Republic

(2)

Sofia, Bulgaria

 

This chapter covers the following topics.

• Understanding observability

• Understanding health checks

• Adding metrics support to Helidon applications

• Using tracing in Helidon applications

• Configuring logging in Helidon

You’ve possibly heard this word many times and already know it has some importance for microservices. You also understand that it’s somehow related to monitoring or telemetry. This chapter explains what observability means, how it differs from monitoring ...