K8s Bootcamp Day 5— Observability: Probes, Monitoring, Logging and Tracing Essentials

K8s Bootcamp: Forge Your Superpower with Hands-on Exercises from Novice to Advanced Deployments

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Welcome to the 5th article of the K8s Bootcamp series. If you are new here, get a quick start to this article series with my first article on K8s Essentials: Pods, Deployments, and Your Superpower.

This K8s Bootcamp will discuss novice to advanced K8s concepts and hands-on exercises. Also, this article series will benefit you in achieving your CKAD certification.

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Today we will discuss observability aspects that are crucial in K8s for ensuring reliability (to reduce downtimes and maintain system health), performance optimization, and security of applications running within containerized environments.

So let’s get started!

Three Pillars of Observability

The three main components of observability in K8s are metrics, logs, and traces.

• Metrics provide resource-level quantitative data on performance indicators like CPU usage and memory consumption.
• Logs offer insights into events, activities, and issues that occur…