Introduction

In this final chapter, we will cover how to monitor the performance and health of the services and the application as a whole. The most common approach to monitoring is to use logging to record information and errors. Following logging, the second most common approach is to record metrics such as CPU usage, request latency, and more. We will be looking into these forms of monitoring and will also take a look at an additional form of monitoring, known as distributed tracing.

Chapter overview

We are going to cover the following main topics as illustrated in the figure below: