When discussing container monitoring, we need to talk about the word “monitoring.” There are a wide array of practices considered to be monitoring between users, developers and sysadmins in different industries. Monitoring — in an operational, container and cloud-based context — has four main use cases:
- Knowing when something is wrong.
- Having the information to debug a problem.
- Trending and reporting.
- Plumbing.
Let’s look at each of these use cases and how each obstacle is best approached.
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