Observability and the Depths of Debugging Cloud-Native Applications using Linkerd and Conduit
Observability and monitoring are different, but complementary, needs for production applications. While monitoring focuses on measuring the overall health of your systems, observability aims to provid …
| Talk Title | Observability and the Depths of Debugging Cloud-Native Applications using Linkerd and Conduit |
| Speakers | Franziska von der Goltz (Software Development Engineer, Buoyant, Inc) |
| Conference | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe |
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| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Date | Apr 30-May 4, 2018 |
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| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Observability and monitoring are different, but complementary, needs for production applications. While monitoring focuses on measuring the overall health of your systems, observability aims to provide granular metrics that describe the behavior of your systems along with their context. Due to both its architecture and focus on providing observability, the service mesh can be a powerful debugging solution when trying to figure out what went wrong with your cloud native applications. In this talk, Franziska shows you how to debug your Kubernetes applications using features of a service mesh in tandem with use of other CNCF projects like OpenTracing. She compares and contrast two different debugging techniques using both Linkerd and Conduit. After attending this talk, you’ll be able to use either approach to debug your Kubernetes-based applications.
