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Chanaka Fernando
Chanaka Fernando
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Chanaka Fernando

Chanaka Fernando is a solution architect with 12+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale software solutions for customers across various industries including finance, education, healthcare, and telecommunications. He has contributed to the open source community with his work (design, implementation, and support) as the product lead of the WSO2 ESB, one of the founding members of the "Ballerina: cloud-native programming language" project, and his own work on GitHub. He has spoken at several WSO2 conferences and his articles are published on Medium, DZone, and InfoQ. Chanaka has a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Moratuwa.
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Observability features of NATS

NATS provides two main methods to monitor the behavior of the NATS servers. Those are the following:

  • Logging
  • Monitoring

The internal implementation of the NATS server is done with a lot of instrumentation so that the users of the NATS server can monitor the servers in any deployment scenario. Let's discuss these options with a few examples.

Logging

Logging is the most common method of observability supported by the server software. It allows the users to track back the failures and possibly identify the root causes of such failures. There are many advanced log management tools available in the market so that users can monitor the logs in real time and trigger alerts and notifications based on certain log events, so that operations teams can take action on those alerts before the server goes into failure mode. The NATS server supports various logging options that you can enable through the command line or the configuration...

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Chanaka Fernando

Chanaka Fernando is a solution architect with 12+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale software solutions for customers across various industries including finance, education, healthcare, and telecommunications. He has contributed to the open source community with his work (design, implementation, and support) as the product lead of the WSO2 ESB, one of the founding members of the "Ballerina: cloud-native programming language" project, and his own work on GitHub. He has spoken at several WSO2 conferences and his articles are published on Medium, DZone, and InfoQ. Chanaka has a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Moratuwa.
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