Chapter 8. What Are the Next Steps?

In this final chapter, we will look at the next steps you can take to monitor your containers, by talking about the benefits of adding alerts to your monitoring. Also, we will cover some different scenarios and also which type of monitoring is appropriate for each of them:

  • Common problems (performance, availability, and so on) and which type of monitoring is best for your situation.
  • What are the benefits of alerting on the metrics you are collecting and what are the options?

Some scenarios

To look at which type of monitoring you might want to implement for your container-based applications, we should work through a few different example configurations that your container-based applications could be deploying into. ...

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