Full NestJS Starter Kit — Part 4 Observability
In this series of articles we’re walking through how to create a NestJS starter kit to use for your cloud applications. In our previous article we walked through how to setup our application to use environment variables.
In this article we’ll walk through how to configure observability for our application via logging, tracing, and metrics.
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Observability
Observability is a critical part of production applications. Our #1 goal is to identify issues as soon as they happen. If we’re learning about issues with our software directly from our customers, we know we need to beef up our observability.
We break down observability into the following areas:
- Logging
- Tracing
- Metrics & Monitoring
- Profiling
- Alerting
- Dashboards
A number of the above areas are covered by our APM (application performance monitoring) tools. For our starter kit, we’ll focus on logging, tracing, and metrics
