We’re seeing a massive shift in how companies build their software. More and more, companies are building—or are rapidly transitioning—their applications to a microservice architecture. The monolithic application is giving way to the rise of microservices.
With an application segmented into dozens (or hundreds!) of microservices, monitoring and consolidated logging become imperative. At any given moment, one of your microservices could fail or throw an error or begin hogging resources. You need to monitor for this so that you can respond quickly and appropriately. In addition, your ability to troubleshoot errors and understand system behavior depends heavily on the existence and effectiveness of your logging tool.