March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
14h 45m
English
In addition to the Linkerd proxy, you can also add a debugging sidecar automatically by setting up the config.linkerd.io/enable-debug-sidecar: true pod annotation or using the linkerd inject command with --enable-debug-sidecar. The debugging sidecar provides the tshark, tcpdump, lsof, and iproute2 tools, which we can use for low-level system monitoring.
In this section, we had a quick overview of Linkerd's observability. We will explore this in more detail in Chapter 18, Exploring the Observability Features of Linkerd. Now, let's move on to Linkerd's traffic managing features for reliability and microservice resiliency.
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