In this chapter, rather than understanding how to build integrations, we are going to examine what information is available that tells us whether or not our integrations, connectors, and agents are working or not; and how to get information that can point to the source of the problem.
Integrations can experience difficulties as a result of many issues, caused by a range of factors such as:
The systems being integrated are not running or functioning correctly
Data definitions have changed, resulting that your transformations stop working
Connections fails as credentials get changed
Tokens and/or SSL certificates are revoked or expire
Networks are not performing properly
Trying to provide guidance on how to identify every possible issue or permutation of issues would turn this book into many thousands of pages, and becomes rather unwieldy. So, in the following pages we will look at what the monitoring information ICS offers,...