Setting Up Service Alerting
In the previous chapter, we described various types of service telemetry data, such as logs, metrics and traces, and illustrated how to collect them for troubleshooting service performance issues.
In this chapter, we will illustrate how to use telemetry data to automatically detect incidents by setting up alerts for our microservices. You will learn which types of service metrics to collect, how to define the conditions for various incidents, and how to establish the complete alerting pipeline for your microservices using a popular monitoring and alerting tool, Prometheus.
We will cover the following topics:
- Alerting basics
- Introduction to Prometheus
- Setting up Prometheus alerting for our microservices
- Alerting best practices
Now, we are going to proceed to the overview of alerting basics.
