Observability

Summary Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a practice and toolset for tracking the availability, responsiveness, and behavior of software applications

Summary CheckMK is an enterprise-grade IT monitoring platform that combines infrastructure, network, and application monitoring with automated service discovery

Summary Amazon CloudWatch is the built-in observability platform for AWS that collects and analyzes metrics, logs, and events from AWS services and custom

Summary Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform that unifies metrics, application traces, logs, and security signals into a single pane of

Summary Distributed tracing is an observability technique that records the path of a request through a distributed system, attaching timing and contextual

Summary Dynatrace is an enterprise observability platform that uses AI (called Davis) to automatically detect anomalies, determine root causes, and provide

Summary The ELK Stack refers to the combination of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana — three open-source tools that together provide a complete solution for

Summary FluentD is a CNCF-graduated open-source log collector that decouples log collection from log storage by providing a unified logging layer with hundreds

Summary Grafana is the most widely used open-source platform for visualizing time-series data, providing rich dashboards that combine metrics, logs, and traces

Summary Grafana Cloud is the fully managed SaaS offering from Grafana Labs that bundles Grafana dashboards, Prometheus-compatible metrics storage (Mimir), Loki

Summary Honeycomb is a cloud-based observability platform that stores wide, high-cardinality events and enables engineers to slice and dice production data

Advanced Monitoring and Observability for Consul Connect Service Mesh in Kubernetes In our previous post on Secure Communication in Kubernetes with Consul