Apache Ignite as a distributed database and caching platform needs end-to-end monitoring to act on time. Historically, Apache Ignite provides a set of API and instrumentation to gather application-specific information and metrics by the external tools. In release 2.8.0, Apache Ignite improved the monitoring capabilities and introduced some nice features like "System views subsystem" and "Metrics subsystem."
In this short article, we are going to explore the Apache Ignite new monitoring opportunities and how to use different tools and technics to gather metrics for diagnosis. Anyway, the full release notes of version 2.8.0 can be found here.