Modern Microservice and Container based applications have attributes that introduce challenges for operating and monitoring these environments:

Microservices have been pioneered by companies like Netflix, Amazon and Google and are the successor of SOA.

In Part 1 of this blog series about monitoring microservices, we looked at the building blocks of microservice-based applications and the necessity of automatically discovering all components and their changes.

Performance incident response processes are still manual creation of dashboards on the fly and visual correlation of data. Instana automates the incident response process.

Application Performance Management (APM) first came to market around 2000 when the Java language and the “3-tier architecture” was becoming dominant. Around 2006 a new generation of APM tools (APM...