1 Instrumenting Applications

1.1 Where should I instrument

  • Good places to start adding are at points of ingress and egress.

2 Metrics

2.1 Application metrics

  • Measure the performance and state of your application.

2.2 Business metrics

  • Measures the value of your application. Eg: How many sales you made, latency of payment transaction etc.

3 Building metrics into a sample application

You use the client libraries for building metrics into the application.