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6 - Logs/Logging & Monitoring & Metrics & Traces/Tracing & Analytics

Created on Mar 27, 2021 · Last Modified on Feb 03, 2025

  • logging - strings, more detailed
  • metrics - deals with aggregated numbers only, simple summary
  • traces - a trace is a path of a single request across a system
  • monitoring -

Resources

  • The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction

Frameworks

  • Time-Series Database (TSDB)
  • Log Frameworks
  • AppDynamics
  • Application Performance Monitoring/Management (APM)
  • AWS - Cloud Trail
  • AWS - CloudWatch
  • Distributed Tracing Infrastructure
  • Grafana
  • Graylog
  • Loki
  • Nagios Core
  • New Relic
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Splunk
  • Zabbix
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Other

  • Real User Monitoring (RUM) vs Synthetic Monitoring (STM)