Application Monitoring for Ionic Application

Question

Hi, Need to know how to monitor ionic application running on Azure Kubernetes Cluster. Is there any plug-in or sdk available to capture iconic application metrics, logs, alerts, availability on Azure Application Insight or .third party observatory platform.

Underlying code is java.

Answer 1

@pranav parikh , Thank you for your question here on Microsoft Q&A.

For monitoring any workload in Azure Kubernetes Cluster, a combination of the following can be used.

1. Container Insights - which is used to monitor infrastructure level monitoring of the AKS as a whole. It gives you performance visibility by collecting memory and processor metrics from controllers, nodes, and containers that are available in Kubernetes through the Metrics API. The data collected here will be available in Log Analytics Workspace and Metric Explorer.
2. Application Insight - which is used for Application performance monitoring. As the code deployed in AKS is written in Java, you can use Java SDK to enable monitoring of the application itself, and also utilize features to send custom metric, events, logs etc. to Application Insights. Note that ApplicationInsights also uses Log Analytics workspace for storage and analytics of the logs, therefore you can store the data collected at infrastructure level (container insights) and application level (application insights) in the same LA workspace (by using AppInsights backed by same LA workspace). This way, you may use the capability of default graphs/visuals/queries available as well as create custom dashboards using Workbooks, if you wish to integrate both data.

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