Deployment Tracking and Exception Tracking: monitoring design patterns for cloud-native applications

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2023

Authors

Albuquerque, C (Author) Other; Filipe Figueiredo Correia (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, EuroPLoP 2023, Irsee, Germany, July 5-9, 2023

Pages: 4:1-4:10

Indexing

Scopus

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00Z-WMP

DOI: 10.1145/3628034.3628038

Abstract (EN): Monitoring a system over time is as important as ever with the increasing use of cloud-native software architectures. This paper expands the set of patterns published in a previous paper (Liveness Endpoint, Readiness Endpoint and Synthetic Testing) with two solutions for supporting teams in diagnosing occurring issues ¿ Deployment Tracking and Exception Tracking. These patterns advise tracking relevant events that occur in the system. The Deployment Tracking pattern provides means to limit the sources of an anomaly, and the Exception Tracking pattern makes a specific class of anomalies visible so that a team can act on them. Both patterns help practitioners identify the root cause of an issue, which is instrumental in fixing it. They can help even less experienced professionals to improve monitoring processes, and reduce the mean time to resolve problems with their application. These patterns draw on documented industry best practices and existing tools. In order to help the reader find other patterns that supplement the ones suggested in this study, relations to already-existing monitoring patterns are also examined. © 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific