Summary
In this chapter, we covered the differences between monitoring, tracing, and logging. Monitoring is the process of observing and collecting data on a system to ensure it’s running correctly. Tracing is the process of tracking requests as they flow through a system to identify performance issues. Logging is the process of recording events and errors in a system for later analysis.
We also discussed cloud solutions for monitoring, logging, and tracing in Azure, GCP, and AWS. For Azure, we mentioned Azure Monitor for monitoring and Azure Application Insights for tracing. For AWS, we mentioned CloudWatch for monitoring and logging, and X-Ray for tracing.
We then went on to explain and provide an example of configuring the AWS CloudWatch agent on an EC2 instance. We also introduced AWS X-Ray with a code example to show how it can be used to trace requests in a distributed system.
Finally, we named some open source and SaaS solutions for monitoring, logging, and tracing...
