Day 36: Health Check API
A Health Check API is a small set of HTTP endpoints that every service exposes so that machines (Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps, App Service, load balancers, monitoring) can ask "are you alive?", "are you ready to...
A Health Check API is a small set of HTTP endpoints that every service exposes so that machines (Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps, App Service, load balancers, monitoring) can ask "are you alive?", "are you ready to...
Exception Tracking means capturing every unhandled (and important handled) error from your services and your browser app, attaching context to it (release, user, request, breadcrumbs), grouping identical errors into...
Audit Logging is the practice of writing a structured, tamper-resistant record of *who* did *what*, *to which thing*, *when*, *from where*, and *with what result* every time a security-relevant or business-relevant...
Application Metrics means every service continuously exposes small, cheap, numeric measurements (request latency, error counts, throughput, queue depth, memory, business counters like "claims submitted") to a...
Log Aggregation means every service writes its logs as structured events to stdout or an agent, and a pipeline ships them to one central, searchable, access-controlled store.
Distributed tracing gives every request a single identity (a *trace ID*) that travels with it through every service, queue and database call it touches.