Month: March 2026

Distributed tracing tracks requests as they flow through multiple services, providing visibility into latency, errors, and dependencies.

MTTR measures the average time it takes to restore a system to normal operation after a failure or incident occurs.

An SLO is an internal target for a service’s reliability, expressed as a percentage of successful operations over a defined time period.

Loki is a log aggregation system built by Grafana Labs that indexes metadata instead of log content, making it efficient and cost-effective.

Jaeger is an open-source distributed tracing platform that helps teams monitor and troubleshoot latency issues in microservices architectures.

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that provides standardized APIs and tools for collecting metrics, logs, and traces.

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that collects time-series metrics using a pull model, designed for cloud-native environments.

containerd is an industry-standard container runtime that manages the complete container lifecycle, serving as the default runtime for Kubernetes.

A Kubernetes Operator is a custom controller that extends Kubernetes to automate the management of complex applications using domain-specific knowledge.

Container orchestration automates the deployment, scaling, networking, and management of containerized applications across clusters of machines.