Introduction to Distributed Monitoring

Need for monitoring

Let’s go over how the failure of a single service can affect the smooth execution of related systems. To avoid cascading failures, monitoring can play a vital role with early warnings or steering us to the root cause of faults.

Let’s consider a scenario where a user uploads a video, intro-to-system-design, to YouTube. The UI service in server A takes the video information and gives the data to service 2 in server B. Service 2 makes an entry in the ...