Observability

Observability

📖 Definition

Observability helps developers understand the running status of complex systems and quickly locate problems in production environments through three pillars: Metrics, Distributed Tracing, and Logging.

🔗 How Higress Uses This

Higress provides deeply integrated observability capabilities, supporting exporting gateway metrics to Prometheus and trace information to Skywalking/Jaeger.

💡 Examples

  • 1 Monitor gateway QPS and latency through Prometheus
  • 2 Use distributed tracing to analyze request call chains across microservices
  • 3 Real-time analysis of gateway error logs to locate configuration issues

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FAQ

What is Observability?
Observability helps developers understand the running status of complex systems and quickly locate problems in production environments through three pillars: Metrics, Distributed Tracing, and Logging.
How does Higress support Observability?
Higress provides deeply integrated observability capabilities, supporting exporting gateway metrics to Prometheus and trace information to Skywalking/Jaeger.

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