Components

The strong characteristic of microservices architecture is the large number of components that can fail. Containers, databases, caches, and message brokers serve as examples of failure points.

Imagine the scenario where the application begins to fail, simply because the hard drive of a database is faulty in some physical component. The time of action in applications where there is no monitoring for this type of problem is usually high because normally the application and the development and support teams always start investigating failures on the software side. Only after confirming that the fault is not in the software do teams seek problems in physical components.

There are tools like pens-sentinel to provide more resilience to the pens, but not all the physical components have that kind of support.

A simple solution is to create a health check endpoint within each microservice. This endpoint is not only responsible for validating the microservice instance, whether it is running, but also all the components that the microservice is connected to. Tools like Nagios and Zabbix are also very useful for making aid work to health check endpoints.