Infrastructure data technologies

So far in this chapter, we have focused on implementations that work well for cloud technologies and containerized platforms. Underneath all of the abstraction are physical components, the servers running the workloads, the network and security devices handling communications, and the power and cooling components that keep things running. These have not dramatically changed over time and neither has the telemetry reported by the logs and metrics. Let’s take a look at the common infrastructure components and standards used in this area.

Common infrastructure components

Infrastructure can largely be categorized into some broad categories, as we will discuss in the following sections. The types of data you can collect will differ on the category of the component.

Compute or bare metal

Servers are often referred to as bare metal or compute; these are physical devices that are used for computation. Often, these systems would run virtualized...