Proactive monitoring design patterns for cloud-native applications

The quality of the digital experiences delivered by engineers and their business success depends on empowering developers and operators with an effective method for continuously assessing a system’s health, diagnosing possible issues, and recovering from service outages. In other words, monitoring is essential to ensure the quality of an application. However, monitoring best practices may not be apparent to everyone and, most of the time, are not sufficiently explained or documented to be learned quickly and communicated effectively. Therefore, practices usually lack formalisation and a standard structure that would make all of them easy to communicate and share among practitioners.