What Is Container Monitoring?

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Container monitoring is the process of collecting metrics on microservices-based applications running on a container platform. Let’s take a look at the components of container monitoring, how to select the right software and current offerings.

Container monitoring tools are necessary, as they let engineers resolve issues more proactively, get detailed visualizations, access performance metrics and track changes.

Detailed container monitoring means users can learn which types of incidents affect container performance and how shared computing resources connect with each other.

Container monitoring requires multiple layers throughout the entire technology stack to collect metrics about the container and any supporting infrastructure, much like application monitoring.

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