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...