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The KCNA Book
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The KCNA Book

by Nigel Poulton
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
197 pages
4h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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6: Cloud native observability

This chapter covers the topics required to pass the cloud native observability section of the exam and accounts for 8% of your exam grade.

The chapter is divided as follows.

  • Primer
  • Telemetry and observability
  • Prometheus
  • Cost management
  • Chapter summary
  • Exam essentials
  • Recap questions

Primer

Cloud native applications are deployed as lots of small moving parts that connect over the network and are frequently updated and replaced. This makes it more important than ever to be able to see how applications are connected and have the ability to track requests as they traverse the various distributed microservices of an application.

To assist with this, every microservice needs to output high-quality telemetry in the ...

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