Key metrics for monitoring Consul

This text discusses monitoring strategies for HashiCorp Consul, a cluster management software that handles service discovery and configuration across distributed systems. The article covers various aspects of Consul's functioning, including the Raft algorithm, Gossip protocol, application-layer network protocols, state management, and metrics reporting. It also delves into specific metrics related to leadership transitions, Raft commits, Gossip metrics, communication metrics, and state metrics that can provide comprehensive visibility into a Consul cluster's health and performance. The text concludes by mentioning the next steps in monitoring Consul using appropriate tools and integrating this data with other system components.