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Modern REST API Development in Go
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Modern REST API Development in Go

by Jesús Espino
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
5h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Metrics, Logs, and Traces

A good understanding of what is going on in your system is the foundation of performance, security, and reliability. Helping to build that understanding is where observability and instrumentation come into play. This chapter will explore the three pillars of software observability: logs, metrics, and traces. Each of them provides a different perspective on the system’s behavior. The logs are a registry of relevant things that have happened in the system. Monitoring is more about the big picture of what is going on in your system. Traces are a way to get fine-grained details about your system behavior, as profound as the level of function executions. The observability of your system is key to any production environment ...

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