Chapter 12: Monitoring Containers

The monitoring of containers has been briefly covered earlier in the book. However, the adoption of microservices-based architecture to build applications and the ever-increasing use of containers to deploy such applications demands a dedicated chapter like this. Monitoring applications are trying to support advances in this space, and Datadog has been adding new features as well.

In this chapter, you will learn about the important Datadog features related to monitoring containers. Specifically, the following topics will be covered:

  • Collecting Docker logs
  • Monitoring Kubernetes
  • Using Live Containers
  • Viewing logs using Live Tail
  • Searching container data

Technical requirements

To try out the examples mentioned ...

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