July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
502 pages
14h
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes
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Monitoring microservices
Your microservices are deployed and running on Kubernetes. You can update the version of your microservices whenever it is needed. Kubernetes takes care of healing and scaling automatically. However, you still need to monitor your system and keep track of errors and performance. This is important for addressing problems, but also for informing you on potential improvements, optimizations, and cost cutting.
There are several categories of information that are relevant and that you should monitor:
- Third-party logs
- Application logs
- Application errors
- Kubernetes events
- Metrics
When considering a system composed of multiple microservices and multiple supporting components, the number of logs will be substantial. The ...