Microservices-based environments offer flexibility, scalability and speed in software development, but they also bring with them considerable complexity in terms of monitoring and diagnostics. With dozens or even hundreds of services deployed in a distributed fashion, detecting failures, bottlenecks or degradations can be a daunting task without the right tools.
Elastic and Grafana address this challenge through advanced observability, designed for complex and highly dynamic environments. At ToBeIT, we work on implementing solutions that allow visualizing, tracking and correlating key microservices data in real time.
Why do microservices need advanced observability?
Unlike monolithic architectures, in microservices each functionality depends on multiple independent components, APIs or services. This implies that:
- Errors are more difficult to locate if there is no traceability between services.
- Isolated metrics are not enough: correlation between logs, metrics and traces is needed.
- Diagnosis should be almost immediate to avoid affecting the end user.
Elastic and Grafana: allies for controlling distributed environments
Elastic Observability allows centralizing logs, metrics and traces generated by each microservice. Its capabilities include:
- Massive data ingestion in real time.
- Full traceability with Elastic APM to track every request between services.
- Alerts based on anomalous behavior using machine learning.
- Dashboards in Kibana customizable by environment, team or service.
Grafana offers advanced and flexible visualization. At ToBeIT, we configure visual panels that allow:
- Represent relationships between microservices and their dependencies.
- Show critical KPIs and health metrics for each component.
- Identify risk areas or overloaded services.
Microservices use cases
- Monitoring of internal and external APIs.
- Performance monitoring in CI/CD pipelines.
- Latency detection in core services.
- Supervision of the use of resources in containers.
Thanks to our observability solutions with Elastic, we help our customers ensure the stability of their distributed environments and anticipate failures before they escalate.
Observability that evolves with your infrastructure
One of the great advantages of working with Elastic and Grafana is their ability to scale and adapt to new architectures, whether they are Kubernetes, hybrid environments or serverless platforms. With proper configuration, the complexity of microservices becomes manageable, allowing technical teams to focus on innovation rather than incident resolution.
