Building Microservices with .NET Core

Security monitoring

Monitoring systems can detect unusual data pattern requests or even unusual resource consumption patterns and detect attacks on the system. Specifically, in the case of DOS, attacks or injection attacks could be identified beforehand and the teams could be alerted. Security monitoring also keeps audit trails of authenticated users and gives a history of the users who have checked in and out of the system. It also comes in handy for getting satisfying compliance requirements.

Security is a cross-cutting aspect of distributed systems, including microservices. So there are multiple avenues of getting such data generated in the system. Security monitoring can get data from various tools that are not part of the system but ...