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Container Monitoring as a Microservice: Best Practices From Sysdig & Logentries

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Marcus Sarmento
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578
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English
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Summary

In a discussion with Trevor Parsons, Co-Founder of Logentries, and Chris Crane, COO of Sysdig, the evolving use of containers for production workloads was highlighted, particularly their dynamic and ephemeral nature, which introduces unique challenges in networking, storage, security, and monitoring. As containers can scale rapidly and exist briefly, effective monitoring has become a critical concern, although recent advancements in APIs, new monitoring methods, and logging support have made it easier. The importance of collecting various metrics, such as application-level data, container stats, Docker API events, and system resource usage, was emphasized to gain a comprehensive understanding of system performance. The upcoming webinar promises to demonstrate how Sysdig and Logentries address these monitoring challenges by showing how to collect and correlate metrics across different levels of the container stack.

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