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Consul monitoring tools

What's this blog post about?

This text discusses various methods to access and monitor data from a Consul cluster, including running CLI and API commands, configuring sinks to collect metrics, logging events, and using browser-based UI or the Consul API. It also provides detailed instructions on how to use these techniques for troubleshooting purposes. The text emphasizes that while ad-hoc commands can provide helpful information about a Consul cluster, they don't provide comprehensive visibility into all of its metrics. Therefore, configuring telemetry sinks is recommended for more thorough monitoring.

Company
Datadog

Date published
July 10, 2019

Author(s)
Paul Gottschling

Word count
2444

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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