Chapter 11. Troubleshooting: Finding the needle in the haystack

This chapter covers

  • Application logging for services in ephemeral environments
  • Application monitoring for services in ephemeral environments
  • Distributed tracing

Back in 2013, I was working with one of the first enterprise customers of the Cloud Foundry open source platform. I visited a particular client every couple of weeks to check on their progress and to help explain capabilities that at that time were really quite new to the industry. And no matter how cool the feature set I was describing, one of the engineers from that organization invariably responded with something along the lines of “Cornelia, you are giving me a Ferrari without a dashboard.” You see, we hadn’t yet ...

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