Kubernetes Monitoring: Service Dependencies with Maps and Traces

A fundamental challenge for the reliability of distributed systems is the ability to observe and understand dependencies among components. The blindness from not understanding service dependencies is costly: Frustrating Root-cause Analysis: “The service looks fine; some otherdependency is causing errors.” Prolonged Outages: “Which service is causing the downtime?” Bad Deployments: “We didn’t know this code change impacts that …