Deploying the observability of the SigSaude system using service mesh

Abstract

The adoption of the microservice architectural style is proving very advantageous as it facilitates the creation of distributed, scalable and available solutions, favoring the use of cloud and container infrastructures. For these and other advantages has been widely adopted by large global companies in the application development market like Uber, Netflix, Amazon, SoundCloud, and many others. If on the one hand the use of microservices provides scalability, maintainability and availability, on the other hand it requires a high degree of observability of operations. However, traditional monitoring tools are incomplete to deal with this distributed scenario. Thus, this paper proposes the use of an integrated and scalable service mesh-based architecture to be incorporated into a health platform project whose main objective is to increase the observability capabilities of the system, allowing the contextualized monitoring of transactions between the various microservices.