Appendix D. Observability in a microservices deployment
In chapter 5, we discuss in detail how to monitor a microservices deployment with Prometheus and Grafana. The modern term for monitoring and analytics is observability. In this appendix, we discuss why observability is so critical in a microservices deployment as compared to monolithic applications.
D.1 The need for observability
Compared to a traditional monolithic application, microservices-backed applications are heavily distributed. In a traditional monolithic application, when function foo calls function bar, the chances of the function invocation failing because of external factors are rare. This is because in a monolithic application, both functions reside on the same process. If ...
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