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8. Logs and Tracing

Rahul Sharma1  and Avinash Singh2
(1)
Delhi, India
(2)
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
 

In the previous chapter, we worked with a few of the observability features offered by Istio. We were able to capture application metrics, but metrics are just one dimension of observability. Observability is about gathering data in all possible dimensions. During application outages, looking at various aspects of observability helps developers understand the application behavior in order to perform incident analysis. There are many tools that can help achieve this objective. However, it is important to know the cost ...

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