Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2018

Nowadays, companies are moving to the cloud and redesigning their applications using self-built containers and microservices applications, coupled with the adoption of agile methodologies, to quickly react to their customers’ needs. This is commonly referred to as digital transformation.  

While Cloud Foundry is designed to run microservices applications, Kubernetes is the counterpart for running self-built containers. To utilize the advantage of both platforms, we see organizations combining these two into multi-cloud solutions (with even different infrastructure providers). Consequently, apps are running next to containers and even interacting with each other. But how can you ensure that the interaction between several cloud abstraction levels works as indented? How can you quickly identify the root cause when users complain about a slow website? Does collecting tons of metrics really provide you with the full picture?

In this talk, we cover a monitoring approach for distributed applications running on multi-cloud platforms. Regardless of the cloud stacks used, you need a monitoring solution that understands different cloud abstraction levels for reporting the health of the entire cluster and that helps to identify bottlenecks impairing the fusion of microservices and containers without adapting your application images.