Brian Brazil superb article about wide array of practices considered to be monitoring in an operational, container and cloud-based context.
Main cases for monitoring he dived into are:
- Knowing when something is wrong
- Having the information to debug a problem
- Trending and reporting
- Plumbing
In this article, author covered the use cases for monitoring, which should help you understand the problems that can be solved with monitoring. We learned about the four different ways for using events: metrics, logs, profiling and distributed tracing.
Each solution has its pros and cons, and you’ll almost certainly need more than one tool to create a comprehensive solution for monitoring containers.
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