Service Meshes and Observability
See how a service mesh provides automatic telemetry through sidecar proxies, what golden signals it exposes, and the trade-offs of mesh-based observability.
What Is a Service Mesh?
A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that manages service-to-service communication. It handles routing, security, and observability without changing application code.
The Sidecar Pattern
The mesh injects a sidecar proxy next to each service. All traffic flows through the proxy, which can measure and report on it.
pod:
- container: app
- container: envoy (sidecar proxy)All lessons in this course
- Observability for Microservices
- Kubernetes Observability Tools
- Serverless Observability Challenges
- Service Meshes and Observability