Establishing an effective troubleshooting process for cloud-native applications

To effectively tackle problems in a multi-cloud environment, it is essential to have a clearly defined approach for debugging cloud-native apps. The following are the steps to set up such a procedure:

Figure 7.7 – Flowchart for troubleshooting cloud-native applications for developers

Step 1 – Detecting the issue

Detecting an issue is the first and most crucial step in the troubleshooting process. By identifying and acknowledging problems quickly, you can minimize the impact on end-users and application performance. In this context, detecting an issue consists of two primary methods:

• Receive an alert from monitoring and observability tools: Cloud-native developers should rely on well-configured monitoring and observability platforms to detect issues proactively. These tools collect, analyze, and visualize metrics, logs, and traces from various application...