Metrics

A step of the Cloud application tree on Gradus, in the Observability area: Logs, metrics, traces, alerts.

Expose latency, error rate, traffic and saturation metrics (the four golden signals) for scraping by Prometheus or similar.

Usually comes after: Structured logging.

Leads to: Distributed tracing, Dashboards.

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Instrument the application with Prometheus-compatible metrics covering request latency, error rate, throughput and resource saturation, and expose a /metrics endpoint.

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