13.2 Monitor Performance

Use Prometheus and Grafana to view performance metrics for your services. You can use these metrics to monitor your transactions and the health of the MicroTx coordinator.

The MicroTx coordinator exposes metrics in a format that can be easily read by Prometheus. Prometheus sends a request to each MicroTx pod to collect metrics from each pod in the Kubernetes cluster. Prometheus monitors and gathers metrics about the MicroTx coordinator and records metrics that tracks the health of all applications within the Istio service mesh.

Use Grafana to visualize the metrics data collected into Prometheus. You can import MicroTx dashboards to view metrics.

• Set Up Prometheus and Grafana
  Set up Prometheus and Grafana in the Kubernetes cluster where you have installed MicroTx to monitor MicroTx.
• View Metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
  View MicroTx coordinator metrics with Prometheus and Grafana.