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9 Adding observability with containerized monitoring

Autonomous applications scale themselves up and down to meet incoming traffic, and they heal themselves when there are intermittent faults. It sounds too good to be true--and it probably is. The container platform can do a lot of the operations work for you if you build your Docker images with health checks, but you still need ongoing monitoring and alerting so humans can get involved when things go badly wrong. If you don’t have any insight into your containerized application, that’s going to be the number one thing that stops you going to production.

Observability is a critical piece of the software landscape when you’re running applications in containers--it tells you what your applications ...