Monitoring Cloud-Native Applications: Lead Agile Operations Confidently Using Open Source Software

© Mainak Chakraborty and Ajit Pratap Kundan  2021

M. Chakraborty, A. P. KundanMonitoring Cloud-Native Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6888-9_2

2. Observability

Mainak Chakraborty¹   and Ajit Pratap Kundan²

(1)

Gurugram, India

(2)

Faridabad, India

 

When environments are as complex as they are today, simply monitoring for known problems doesn’t address the growing number of new issues that arise as services scale to meet demands. It is fairly difficult to ascertain from the beginning about what can go wrong. In most scenarios, the standard tooling is not good enough to even start the analysis. By the time one starts, systems would have already changed with fluctuating demand patterns and sometimes new systems would have appeared in place ...