Distributed Systems Observability

Network infrastructure is in the midst of a paradigm-shift. As systems become more distributed, methods for building and operating them are rapidly evolving—and that makes visibility into our services and infrastructure more important than ever.

In this practical e-book, author Cindy Sridharan examines new monitoring tools that, while promising, bring their own set of technical and organizational challenges.

Platforms such as Kubernetes have solved several problems that traditional monitoring tools used to flag, but partial, implicit, and “soft” failure modes have risen along with the overall complexity of the system.

This e-book provides an honest overview of monitoring challenges and trade-offs to help you choose the best observability strategy for your distributed system.