Oracle is a thing. It runs on an OS. It’s connected to storage. It has users. And above all, as admins, we have mature tools that monitor it out-of-the-box, as well as MySQL, SQL Server, Tomcat, Exchange, VMware, JBoss--you name it. But there’s a problem: the consumer side of these services is changing, making critical performance metrics we take for granted disappear. Peeling back these new layers, you’re finding APIs increasingly based on microservices. Throw in new cloud apps and suddenly you could be responsible for hundreds or even thousands of small, distributed processes. How do you monitor that?

In this THWACKcamp session, you’ll learn how microservices are different from other applications, when performance bottlenecks most often occur, how they tend to break, and where you can add monitoring to stay ahead of trouble. You’ll also see how to extend existing infrastructure dashboards to include microservice workloads, cut troubleshooting time, and include new business metrics that measure the business goals driving microservices in the first place.