Knowing what’s running inside the container, and how the application and code are performing is critical for tackling important issues. With Microservices …
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. With microservices architecture becoming the de facto standard for web applications now, effective debugging and anomaly detection calls for a system that is observable — which means, the internal state of an application can be inferred by observing and tracking the metrics, traces, and logs. Observability is all about data exposure and easy access to information required to find issues when the communications fail, internal events do not occur as expected or events occur when they shouldn’t. Here, you’ll learn and know about different microservices monitoring tools and how to monitor microservices. Let’s take a look! Monitoring microservices using a predefined set of metrics and logs helps in understanding the actual health status of applications. The way how services interact with each other at runtime needs to be monitored, managed, and controlled for identifying issues within the app. Microservices Observability and monitoring microservices are crucial for understanding how apps are functioning and for identifying issues to prevent failures in advance. How to monitor microservices has become a common issue for enterprises these days. Here is an overview of the approach that some of the platforms are taking to provide the engineering teams with complete observability for monitoring app performance and gauging its health status. Also, discussed here is a list of some popular microservices monitoring tools to know the insights and performance of the microservices. SigNoz is a full-stack open-source APM (Application Performance Management) and observability tool. It has the ability to capture metrics, traces, and logs. The ultimate goal is to use collected data to gain insights for ensuring compliance and security of applications and infrastructure. This microservices monitoring tool can easily be hosted within any infrastructure. SigNoz enables a full-stack observability stack for monitoring microservices applications and helps engineering teams to gain comprehensive observability through: A unique feature about SigNoz is the fact that it uses OpenTelemetry, which is a vendor-agnostic instrumentation library for generating telemetry data.
