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Kubernetes in the Enterprise
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Kubernetes in the Enterprise

by Michael Elder, Jake Kitchener, Dr. Brad Topol
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
170 pages
3h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 6. Enterprise Application Operations

In this chapter, we provide an overview of several key tools that are critical to operating your enterprise application. We begin with a discussion of Logstash and Fluentd, which are two popular enterprise-quality tools for performing a centralized log collection for your microservices running distributed across a cluster. We then describe Elasticsearch, which is a log storage repository with advanced knowledge discovery and analysis features. Then, we introduce Kibana, which is a dashboard-based log visualization tool. We complete our discussion of log collection tools with an overview of the log collection support provided by both the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and IBM Cloud Private. In the second half of this chapter, we describe the health-management facilities for monitoring enterprise applications. We conclude this chapter with a description of monitoring capabilities provided by both IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and IBM Cloud Private.

Log Collection and Analysis for Your Microservices

Logs are the universal debugger. When all else fails, check the logs and hope the developer was paying attention to the serviceability of their code.

In all seriousness, logging is a critical component for the operation and service of any Kubernetes-based application. Unlike traditional monolithic applications, developers and operators desire a centralized logging solution that will aggregate logs from their distributed applications to prevent ...

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