January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
484 pages
11h 48m
English
The monitoring and logging system we built around our application on top of Kubernetes is shown in the following diagram:

The logging part and the monitoring part look like two independent tracks, but the value of the logs is much more than a collection of short texts. This is structured data and usually emitted with timestamps; because of this, if we can parse information from logs and project the extracted vector into the time dimension according to the timestamps, it will become a time series metric and be available in Prometheus.
For example, an access log entry from any of the web servers may look as follows: ...
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