February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
444 pages
11h 36m
English
We now have a pretty good idea about what the HotROD application does, if not exactly how it does it. For example, why does the frontend service call the /customer endpoint of the customer service? Of course, we can look at the source code, but we are trying to approach this from the point of view of application monitoring. One direction we could take is to look at the logs the application writes to its standard output (Figure 2.7).

Figure 2.7: Typical logging output
It is quite difficult to follow the application logic from these logs and we are only looking at the logs when a single request was executed by the application.
We ...