Definitely, there is not even one right-off-the-shelf solution or offering found as of now on Azure or for that matter any cloud provider to the monitoring challenges presented by microservices. Interestingly enough, there are not too many open source tools available that can work with .NET-based microservices.
We are utilizing Microsoft Azure Cloud and cloud services for building our microservices, so it is useful to look for the monitoring capability it comes along with. If you are looking to manage around a couple of hundred microservices, you can utilize a custom monitoring solution (mostly interweaving Powershell scripts) based on a Microsoft Azure-based solution.
We will be primarily focusing on the following logging and monitoring solutions:
- Microsoft Azure Diagnostics: This helps in collecting and analyzing resources through resource and activity logs.
- Application Insights: This helps in collecting all of the telemetry data about our microservices and analyzing...
