Practice 7 – Incorporate traceability
Incorporate traceability for the delivery process and working system. There is nothing worse than a failure without any log messages. Monitor the number of requests, the latency, the load of production servers, the state of the Continuous Delivery pipeline, and everything you can think of that could help you to analyze your current software. Be proactive! At some point, you will need to check the stats and logs:
- Log pipeline activities! In the case of failure, notify the team with an informative message.
- Implement proper logging and monitoring of the running system.
- Use specialized tools for system monitoring, such as Kibana, Grafana, or Logmatic.io.
- Integrate production monitoring into your development ecosystem. Consider having big screens with the current production stats in the common team space.
