Logging & Monitoring in Microservices

Ishan Liyanage
5 min readMay 8, 2021

We will discuss one of the most important aspects of the Microservices system, which is the logging and monitoring. Without proper logging and monitoring, we are going to have a lot of problems with our system. It might lead to its failure too.

As I said earlier, this is extremely important in Microservices projects even more than monolith. The reason for that is that in Microservices, the flow goes through multiple processes. In this case its difficult to get holistic view of the system or entire flow. Most of the time in traditional monolith, we can examine logs…

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Ishan Liyanage

Passionate Technical Lead, Senior Software Developer and free and open source software advocate. Based in Singapore.