Realizing Full-Stack Visibility with VMware Aria Operations for Applications

In the last chapter, we learned how we can use Tanzu Mission Control to manage hundreds of Kubernetes clusters for their lifecycle management, policy control, and data protection. Tanzu Mission Control is a single point of control for all these concerns for Kubernetes. In this chapter, we will talk about a central point of visibility for your cloud-native apps running in containers, along with all other supporting layers and systems around them. Knowing the vital health status of your systems is a very old and essential concept in the world of information technology that is known as monitoring. It is also known as telemetry. The tools we used for years to monitor traditional monolithic applications would not yield the required results when it comes to monitoring microservices running on different clusters, platforms, and clouds. With microservices, the world is very distributed. Typically, microservices run...