Industrial Internet Application Development

Tracing and logging end to end

In IIoT applications, things could go wrong in any of the components. Consequently, it is very important to be able to identify the root cause of the problem quickly so that we can bring the system back up quickly and avoid prolonged downtime. Having robust logging and tracing, along with a monitoring solution, can help resolve system issues quickly.

In a typical IIoT application, there are application logs and device/platform logs, as can be seen in the following diagram:

Logs from different IIoT components

The different logs in a typical IIoT application are as follows:

• Application logs usually logged by application, ...