Introduction

Confidence is crucial to maximize the potential of our lean and autonomous cloud-native services, because a crisis of confidence will stifle progress. Leveraging fully managed cloud services and following cloud-native design patterns to create autonomous services significantly increases team confidence. Decoupling deployment from release and shifting testing to the left, to create a streamlined continuous deployment pipeline, further increases team confidence. Yet, this is not enough. We need to shift testing to the right as well, all the way into production, so that we can monitor and alert the team about the status of the system. This gives teams confidence that they will have timely information so that they can minimize the mean time to recovery when errors do happen. The recipes in this chapter demonstrate how to optimize the observability of cloud-native services...