Building Microservices with .NET Core 2.0 - Second Edition

Security monitoring

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

Security is a cross-cutting concern of distributed systems, including microservices, so there are multiple ways of generating this data in the system. Security monitoring can get data from various tools that are not part of the system but may be part of the infrastructure or ...