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Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

You're reading from   Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Build resilient and scalable microservices using Spring Cloud, Istio, and Kubernetes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072977
Length 774 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Magnus Larsson AB Magnus Larsson AB
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Monitoring Microservices

In this chapter, we will learn how to use Prometheus and Grafana to collect, monitor, and alert about performance metrics. As we mentioned in Chapter 1, Introduction to Microservices, in a production environment it is crucial to be able to collect metrics for application performance and hardware resource usage. Monitoring these metrics is required to avoid long response times or outages for API requests and other processes.

To be able to monitor a system landscape of microservices in a cost-efficient and proactive way, we must also be able to define alarms that are triggered automatically if the metrics exceed the configured limits.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to performance monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana
  • Changes in source code for collecting application metrics
  • Building and deploying the microservices
  • Monitoring microservices using Grafana dashboards
  • Setting up alarms...
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