Monitoring and observability tools for Kubernetes
Typically, in any tech book, the theory/practical knowledge comes first, then the tooling. However, monitoring and observability are a bit different because you can’t really talk about the specifics without mentioning or showing a certain tool/platform. Because of this, prior to jumping into the specifics around how to monitor and implement observability, you’re going to learn about a few key tools.
The goal of this section is to help you first understand what the tools look like and then take the theory that you learn and utilize it in the tools. When you combine the knowledge and visuals (UI) of the tools with the understanding of what true monitoring and observability are, you can successfully implement them in your environment.
One of the interesting things about monitoring is that you can fully understand it from a theoretical perspective, but implementing it can be a challenge. For example, you can understand...
