The need for microservices can be summed up in just one word: Speed.

Radical changes required to efficiently monitor microservices in production. If you're using Kubernetes, OpenShift, Mesos, or Docker, these five guiding principles will help you adapt your monitoring approach to a new container-based software architecture.

Read The Five Principles of Monitoring Microservices to discover:

• Best practices for monitoring containers and what’s inside
• How to alert on service performance, not just containers
• What's required to monitor elastic, multi-location services
• Why you should map monitoring to your org structure