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Monitoring and logging

Monitoring and logging

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Monitoring and logging

- [Instructor] Being able to observe the activity taking place in a system is important for many reasons. However, from a security perspective, it's essential. Having visibility into a system through its logs can alert us to suspicious behavior that detects an ongoing attack. If a security incident is discovered in a system that has good logging, it's possible to identify the attack vector, the extent of the attack, and possibly the attacker. Logs can also serve as great mechanisms for establishing audit trails for sensitive operations that may be exploited by insiders. Like most other security concerns, microservices present a unique challenge, because sensitive operations that once occurred in process now span multiple distributed components. This causes logging to be fragmented across the multiple services, and discrepancies can arise between logging strategies used by different teams. Tracing is one of the most…

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