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Hands-On Microservices ??? Monitoring and Testing

By : Dinesh Rajput
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Book Image

Hands-On Microservices ??? Monitoring and Testing

5 (1)
By: Dinesh Rajput

Overview of this book

Microservices are the latest "right" way of developing web applications. Microservices architecture has been gaining momentum over the past few years, but once you've started down the microservices path, you need to test and optimize the services. This book focuses on exploring various testing, monitoring, and optimization techniques for microservices. The book starts with the evolution of software architecture style, from monolithic to virtualized, to microservices architecture. Then you will explore methods to deploy microservices and various implementation patterns. With the help of a real-world example, you will understand how external APIs help product developers to focus on core competencies. After that, you will learn testing techniques, such as Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, and Load Testing. Next, you will explore performance testing tools, such as JMeter, and Gatling. Then, we deep dive into monitoring techniques and learn performance benchmarking of the various architectural components. For this, you will explore monitoring tools such as Appdynamics, Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch, and Nagios. Finally, you will learn to identify, address, and report various performance issues related to microservices.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Grafana

Grafana, like Kibana, is commonly used in combination with Graphite, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and Logz.io. It is an open-source tool for visualization, and is used with data stores.

Grafana is essentially an advanced, faster, and more enriched version of the Graphite Web. It helps users with dashboard creation by providing a specific Graphite Target parser that provides smooth metrics and editing. Moreover, you can create smart axis format charts due to Grafana's fast, client-side rendering that uses Flotas as a default option.

Grafana is very easy to use, install, and set up. It supports installation on Linux, Mac, Windows, and Docker. Grafana is set up with an .ini file that is comparatively smoother to handle than Kibana's syntax-sensitive YAML setup files. Grafana even allows the use of environment variables to override the setup and configuration files....