Overview of cloud-native observability tools
Cloud-native observability is achieved through a combination of monitoring, logging, tracing, and visualization tools. Key industry-standard tools include:
- Metrics & Monitoring: Prometheus (time-series database), VictoriaMetrics (fast Prometheus replacement/long-term store), and Grafana (dashboards).
- Logging: Fluentd (collection/forwarding), Logstash (processing pipeline), Loki (scalable aggregation), and Elastic (search and analytics).
- Tracing: Jaeger (microservice monitoring) and OpenTelemetry (vendor-neutral telemetry framework for traces, metrics, and logs).