December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
9h 28m
English
In the previous chapters, you learned how to build a Microservice application with the Go programming language and how to (continuously) deploy it into various environments.
However, our work is not yet complete. When you have an application running in a production environment, you will need to ensure that it stays up and running and behaves the way that you as a developer intended. This is what monitoring is for.
In this chapter, we will introduce you to Prometheus, an open source monitoring software that has quickly gained popularity for monitoring cloud-based distributed applications. It is often used together with Grafana, a frontend for visualizing metrics data collected by Prometheus. Both applications are ...
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