Monitoring Kubernetes (part 4): Docker + Kubernetes at WayBlazer – A use case

The blog post discusses the challenges and solutions involved in monitoring Docker and Kubernetes in a production environment, using the real-world example of WayBlazer, a cognitive recommendation engine in the travel industry. It highlights the importance of selecting the right metrics for monitoring and ensuring security through tools like Sysdig, which unifies infrastructure and service-centric views. WayBlazer operates on AWS, utilizing Kubernetes for its scalable architecture, and emphasizes monitoring application performance over solely infrastructure metrics. The post illustrates the impact of adopting Kubernetes on monitoring strategies, stressing the need for tools that understand Kubernetes constructs out-of-the-box and provide insights into both infrastructure and application layers. It recounts a specific incident of a "domino effect" failover in Kubernetes, leading to a robust improvement in their systems through detailed retrospectives and action plans.