How do you monitor your environment and your applications? How do you apply monitoring principles of RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) and USE (Utilization, Saturation, Errors)? What are the “Golden Signals” to monitor, how do you keep access and application logs for root cause analysis? 

In this workshop we’ll walk through the building blocks of a modern monitoring and observability infrastructure (e.g. Filebeat, Logstash, Graylog, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana). We’ll also shed light on other solutions like e.g. Loki and Kibana. We’ll start off with a naked Kubernetes cluster, extending the monitoring capabilities step by step. We’ll deploy typical monitoring targets like a Spring Boot application or a WordPress blog. Together we’ll develop monitoring strategies for applications, ingresses and the surrounding container environment.