Full Stack Visibility with Elastic: Logs, Metrics and Traces - Carlos Pérez-Aradros, Elastic

Full Stack Visibility with Elastic: Logs, Metrics and Traces - Carlos Pérez-Aradros, Elastic

"With microservices every outage is like a murder mystery" is a common complaint. But it doesn't have to be! This talk gives an overview on how to monitor distributed applications. We dive into:

System metrics: Keep track of network traffic and system load.
Application logs: Collect structured logs in a central location.
Audit info: Watch for user and processes activity in the system.
Uptime monitoring: Ping services and actively monitor their availability and response time.
Application metrics: Get metrics and health information from for application via REST or JMX.
Request tracing: Gather timing data by using tools like Zipkin to retrieve and show call traces.

About Carlos Pérez-Aradros
Carlos is a software engineer at Elastic, working on Beats. With love for distributed systems, he has experience in many container technologies and focuses on bringing the right tools to monitor them. When he is not coding you may find him playing with home automation and all kinds of gadgets.