4.1 Overview
This section covers essential practices for monitoring, tracking, and managing the health and performance of cloud-native applications. With observability being a critical factor in ensuring system reliability, you'll learn how to collect and analyze telemetry data, leverage Prometheus for monitoring, and implement cost management strategies to optimize resource usage.
Topics Covered
- Telemetry and Observability in Cloud Native Systems: Understanding the role of metrics, logs, and tracing for full system visibility.
- Using Prometheus for Monitoring: Leveraging Prometheus for real-time metrics collection, querying, and alerting.
- Cost Management in Cloud Native Environments: Techniques to track, optimize, and control cloud costs while maintaining performance.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how telemetry and observability provide insights into the health and performance of cloud-native systems.
- Learn how to use Prometheus to collect metrics, set up alerts, and monitor cloud-native applications.
- Explore cost management techniques to optimize cloud resource usage and reduce operational costs.