In the microservice architecture pattern, a distributed system runs on several different machines, where each service is a component or process of an enterprise application. Although using a microservice-based application has a lot of advantages, it can bring about major challenges as well. One such challenge includes how to monitor a distributed system; this is because each microservice is heterogeneous and independent in nature. This means that traditional monitoring approaches are not good enough.

Monitoring is a critical part of a microservice-based system. It involves knowing how to control it and to how make sure that software is reliable, available, and that it performs as expected. This isn't a particularly easy task.

As you may know, traditional APM tools that are suitable for monolithic applications are not...