The Holy Trinity of Monitoring: Logs, Metrics, and Traces

A presentation at DevOpsDays Istanbul 2018 in in Istanbul, Turkey by Philipp Krenn

"With microservices every outage is like a murder mystery" is a common complaint. But it doesn’t have to be! This talk gives an overview on how to monitor applications from every possible angle. We dive into:

  • System metrics: Keep track of network traffic and system load.
  • Application logs: Collect structured logs in a central location.
  • Uptime monitoring: Ping services and actively monitor their availability and response time.
  • Application metrics: Get the information from REST or JMX.
  • Request tracing: Trace requests through a distributed system and Kibana to show how long each call takes.

And we will do all of that live, since it is so easy and much more interactive that way.

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Resources

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  • GitHub: Demo Code

    Monitor your Spring Boot application with the Elastic Stack all around

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