Are you looking for implementing Observability but clueless on How to implement it on Kubernetes? Well, well… This could be the blog you have been searching for.
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First, let us understand what Observability is. This term originated in Control system engineering and defined as “a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred by knowledge of its external outputs”. In simple terms, observability means adequate insights into the system facilitating corrective action.
There are three main pillars of Observability and those are
- Event Logs: A record of an event that happened in the system. Events are discrete and contain metadata about the system when they occur.
- Tracing: The system usually consists of many parts/components that work cohesively to provide certain meaningful functionality. For a particular functionality, tracing of request and response flow across distributed components is critical for effective debugging / troubleshooting.
- Metrics: Performance of the system measured over a period of time is termed as metrics. These indicate the service level of a system.
Now the question is, how do we get this implemented in the Kubernetes cluster for the microservices components?