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Published inApr 2018
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Joseph Heck
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Joseph Heck

Joseph Heck has broad development and management experience across start-ups and large companies. He has architected, developed, and deployed a wide variety of solutions, ranging from mobile and desktop applications to cloud-based distributed systems. He builds and directs teams and mentors individuals to improve the way they build, validate, deploy, and run software. He also works extensively with and in open source, collaborating across many projects, including Kubernetes.
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In this chapter, we introduced Prometheus and showed how to install it, used it to capture metrics from your Kubernetes cluster, and showed how to install and use Grafana to provide dashboards, using the metrics captured and temporarily stored in Prometheus. We then looked at how you can expose custom metrics from your own code and leverage Prometheus to capture them, along with a few examples of metrics you might be interested in tracking, such as error rate, response time, and throughput.

In the next chapter, we continue to look into observability for our applications with tools to help us capture logs and traces. 

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Published in: Apr 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788834759

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Joseph Heck

Joseph Heck has broad development and management experience across start-ups and large companies. He has architected, developed, and deployed a wide variety of solutions, ranging from mobile and desktop applications to cloud-based distributed systems. He builds and directs teams and mentors individuals to improve the way they build, validate, deploy, and run software. He also works extensively with and in open source, collaborating across many projects, including Kubernetes.
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