Four Golden Signals of Monitoring
- Refer Here for an article about 4 golden signals
- Latency
- Traffic
- Error Rate
- Resource Saturation
Logs, Metrics and Traces
- Metric:
- This is generally a numeric value which has name and value with time series.
- These can be aggregated and visualized.
- For metrics be effective
- High Volume/High Frequecy
- Log:
- This is a textual information about some event that has happened in your system
- Problems in monitoring:
- They are unstructured
- There are no standards
- Trace:
- This is about recording the program execution flow
- Problems in monitoring:
- They are very resource intensive
- They are very resource intensive
What is our responsibility ?
- Setting up a monitoring system to collect metrics, logs and traces
- Create dashboards which help us viewing Golden Signals
- When Things go wrong Alert the team
Fake SMTP Email Server
- Create an Account in mailtrap.io Refer Here
Elastic Cloud Account
- There is a free account for 14 days and we can use google or microsoft accounts. Refer Here
- This will act as a centralized monitoring system
