Microservices are complex, distributed systems. Microservice implementation is the backbone of any modern IT business. Understanding the internals of the services along with their interactions and behaviors will help you make the overall business more flexible and agile. The performance, availability, scale, and security of microservices can directly affect a business and also its revenue. Hence, monitoring microservices is vital. It helps us observe and manage the quality of the service attributes. Let's discuss the scenarios where it is required.
With health monitoring, we monitor the health of a system and its various components at a certain frequency, typically a few seconds. This ensures that the system and its components behave as expected. With the help of an exhaustive health monitoring system, we can keep tabs on the overall system health, which has data points, such as CPU, memory utilization, and so on. It might be in the form of pings or...