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Istio in Action
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Istio in Action

by Rinor Maloku, Christian E. Posta
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
13h 18m
English
Manning Publications
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7 Observability: Understanding the behavior of your services

This chapter covers

  • Collecting basic request-level metrics
  • Understanding Istio’s standard service-to-service metrics
  • Using Prometheus to scrape workload and control-plane metrics
  • Adding new metrics in Istio to track in Prometheus

Recently, you may have heard the term observability start to creep into the vocabulary of software engineers, operations, and site-reliability teams. These teams have to deal with the near-exponential increase in complexity when operationalizing a microservices-style architecture on cloud infrastructure. When we start to deploy our application as tens or hundreds of services (or more) per application, we increase the number of moving pieces, reliance on the ...

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