Monitoring Fission logs with Grafana Loki

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Importance of Logs

Proper logging in a software is a quick and systematic way to inform the state of the software. Although the definition of ’logs’ remains the same along years in software engineering, the scope of what logs are used is has always been increasing. Apart from helping developers and operators, logs can be used by complimenting software for security, metrics, triggers, cost estimation and other different operations.

Logs in Fission

Fission works in a systematic way where there are different services (containers) providing functionalities for running applications (Functions) in a serverless way. Logs in Fission thus comprise of log statements from these services as well as from the applications.

Sahil Lakhwani on Fission

Monitoring Fission logs with Grafana Loki

Importance of Logs

Logs in Fission