Advancing Monitoring in Microservices Systems

Abstract

Monitoring is a core reliability engineering practice to gain insights into production systems. New trends in microservices exacerbate the role of monitoring. This paper discusses key challenges in microservices monitoring. We introduce our proposal for a novel monitoring framework, which aims to cope with existing challenges by means of non-intrusive techniques that capitalize on passive tracing and log analysis. We present our ongoing work on the topic and preliminary outcomes.