Ambassador and the Cloud Native Ecosystem — Part 1: Monitoring
As the cloud native ecosystem continues to grow, we’ve been working hard alongside the Ambassador community to provide integrations with other key projects in the fast-moving ecosystem.
In a Cloud Native world, microservices are running with ephemeral containers that are regularly deployed to multiple availability zones, regions, and even multiple clouds. As these cloud native applications become more complex, our supporting solutions like monitoring, have also had to become more complex. Today, more traditional monitoring responsibilities are being automated, and monitoring has become less human centric.
In the first part of this series, we’ve summarized some of the most popular monitoring solutions with Ambassador.
Prometheus
Prometheus can be used for real-time monitoring of Ambassador instances. We’re fans of the Prometheus Operator, which automatically creates and manages Prometheus monitoring instances. Check out our tutorial on using the Prometheus Operator with Ambassador here: http://www.datawire.io/faster/ambassador-prometheus/.
Grafana
Grafana enables you to view your time series analytics through dashboards. Alex Gervais, an Ambassador community member, maintains a Grafana dashboard for Ambassador.
Datadog
Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring system. We’ve added a native Datadog integration that allows you to easily export Ambassador stats into the Datadog monitoring system.
Zipkin
This tutorial covers how to add distributed tracing support to the Java “MicroDonuts” demo app through Ambassador using Zipkin: Distributed Tracing with Java “MicroDonuts”, Kubernetes, and Ambassador
Lightstep
LightStep is a Saas-based distributed tracing platform aiming to provide the next generation of Application Performance Monitoring. This tutorial covers how to add distributed tracing support to the same Java “MicroDonuts” demo app using LightStep: https://blog.getambassador.io/extending-the-ambassador-java-distributed-tracing-with-lightstep-89377b5c1f59
Learn More
Check out the Ambassador documentation to get started with any of these monitoring integrations today. Subscribe to the Ambassador blog to stay up-to-date on the later parts in this series for integration solutions including service mesh, security, and deployment.
