Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)

Monitoring

Good monitoring is important to keeping any application healthy and available. In a microservices architecture good monitoring is even more important. We not only need to be able to monitor what’s going on inside a service, but also the interactions between the services and the operations that span them.

• Use activity or correlation IDs: These are used to associate events to a specific activity or transaction.

• Use a common log format: This enables better correlation of events across services and instances.

• Collect and analyze logs: By collecting logs from the various services and instances, we can analyze and query across multiple services and instances of a service.

• Consider using a sidecar: A sidecar is simply an out-of-process ...