Application Monitoring and Tracing for Containerized Apps

Let’s set up your own environment for monitoring and tracing containerized apps.

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Let’s set up your own application monitoring and tracing environment for containerized applications.

I am going to use SigNoz as an example, but there are many open-source alternatives listed at the end of this article that you can use.

SigNoz helps developers monitor their applications and troubleshoot problems. It is an open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc.

Setting up SigNoz

I am going to set up SigNoz using Docker.

• Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz.git && cd signoz/deploy/

• Run docker-compose.

sudo docker-compose -f ./docker/clickhouse-setup/docker-compose.yaml up -d

SigNoz Installation

• Using your browser, navigate to http://localhost:3000/. Type in any email address and name, and click Getting Started. You should see the dashboard similar to below.