In this conversation with Ken Owens, chief technology officer, Cloud Native Platforms at Cisco Systems, we talk about what makes monitoring containers different, especially when it comes to behaviors like networking. Containers are a small unit of capability that result from when you decompose an application into a set of services. Connecting and managing these containers, and understanding the availability, liability and the translation to these different small microservices, is much more complicated and difficult to do than what we’ve had to do in the past.

Owens also talks about focusing on microservices in general, and the kind of complexity that the pattern introduces. In an environment where containers are being automated and orchestrated at scale, it becomes difficult to identify and isolate those problems. However, if you understand the application pattern you’re trying to achieve, you know how to monitor that pattern.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB_-qoNye5w

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