In Chapter 7, Pilot Docker Enterprise Platform Monitoring and Logging, we introduced logging and monitoring tools to serve several key purposes. First of all, this was to help us better understand what was happening in the cluster with respect to resources such as processor, disk, and networking across the cluster. We wanted to quickly identify and diagnose otherwise difficult-to-find problems. We also wanted to keep a close eye on the health of our pilot application. Finally, understanding resource consumption across our non-production cluster over a reasonable amount of time gives us some confidence in sizing nodes when building out our production cluster.
Now, as we move into production, we need to keep a keen eye ...
