Logs, Request Tracing, and Metrics
Rahul R. Sharma, Akshay Mathur · Apress eBooks · 2020
Business operations perform application monitoring. This process aims to discover and fix application outages before they impact regular business operations. Traditionally, teams performed simple checks like process up/down or port open/closed. But these checks were not good enough. Over time, many tools have been built to improve the process of application monitoring. The process involves capturing usage metrics and performing analysis. But relying only on application monitoring is a weak practice. Application monitoring can only provide notifications on ongoing application issues. The next step is to determine the root cause .