Cloud Native Observability and Analysis

17 January 2025 - less than 1 min read time
Tags: Monitoring Observability DevOps

Cloud Native Observability and Analysis

The Three Pillars of Observability

1. Metrics

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Custom metrics
• Alert management

2. Logging

• ELK Stack
• Loki
• Fluentd
• Log aggregation

3. Tracing

• Jaeger
• Zipkin
• OpenTelemetry
• Distributed tracing

Monitoring Strategies

1. Infrastructure Monitoring

• Node metrics
• Cluster health
• Network performance
• Storage utilization

2. Application Monitoring

• Golden signals
• Error rates
• Latency tracking
• Throughput analysis

3. User Experience Monitoring

• Frontend performance
• API latency
• Error tracking
• User journey analysis

Analysis Tools

1. Visualization

• Grafana dashboards
• Kibana
• Custom visualization
• Real-time analytics

2. Alerting

• Alert rules
• Notification channels
• On-call management
• Incident response

3. Troubleshooting

• Debug tools
• Log analysis
• Trace analysis
• Root cause analysis

More detailed content about observability practices coming soon!