Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

Events

Our third category of measurements is events, both system events and external events. These are distinct from our domain events. Events are discrete, infrequent occurrences, such as a recent deployment, the autoscaling of a cloud-native database, a fault in a stream processor, or recorded alerts that show a resource metric or work metric that is not behaving normally. Events provide crucial context to the behavior of the system. When we are investigating a problem via a dashboard, events that correlate with metric fluctuations often lead to the root cause.

Most monitoring tools integrate with the webhooks of Git repositories, such as GitHub and BitBucket. When performing many deployments per day, these integrations are very important ...