As we wind down our pilot phase, we need to think about how we are going to support our pilot application during the internal pilot. Beyond the external access metrics like https://www.site24x7.com/ and others do so well, we need to get start getting real experience in container logging and monitoring.
Logging and monitoring is a transformational area where we have to be careful not to pave the cowpath. In other words, it would be easy to carry some old habits into the new world of containers, but it could be problematic. Traditionally, we set up our application servers to handle logging. We usually did this in one of two ways. We either used logging frameworks to write logs to the application server's filesystem, or we installed agents on each of these servers to monitor the logging activity. Because we had a relatively...