You're reading from Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot Design highly scalable and maintainable APIs with REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and the reactive paradigm

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562479

Length 582 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

GraphQL

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Sourabh Sharma

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: RESTful Web Services

2. Chapter 1: RESTful Web Service Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Spring Concepts and REST APIs

4. Chapter 3: API Specifications and Implementation

5. Chapter 4: Writing Business Logic for APIs

6. Chapter 5: Asynchronous API Design

7. Section 2: Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment

8. Chapter 6: Security (Authorization and Authentication)

9. Chapter 7: Designing a User Interface

10. Chapter 8: Testing APIs

11. Chapter 9: Deployment of Web Services

12. Section 3: gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring

13. Chapter 10: gRPC Fundamentals

14. Chapter 11: gRPC-based API Development and Testing

15. Chapter 12: Logging and Tracing

16. Section 4: GraphQL

17. Chapter 13: GraphQL Fundamentals

18. Chapter 14: GraphQL API Development and Testing

19. Assessments

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 12: Logging and Tracing

In this chapter, you will explore the logging and monitoring tools, the ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana) stack and Zipkin. This tool will then be used to implement the distributed logging and tracing of the request/response of API calls. Spring Sleuth will be used to inject the tracing information into API calls. You will learn how to publish and analyze the logging and tracing of different requests and logs related to responses.

These aggregated logs will help you to troubleshoot web services. You will call one service (such as gRPC client), which will then call another service (such as gRPC server), and link them with a trace identifier. Then, using this trace identifier, you can search the centralized logs and debug the request flows. In this chapter, we will use this sample flow. However, the same can be used where service calls require more internal calls. You will also use Zipkin to ascertain the performance of each API call.

You will...