Explain the common technical complexities and patterns in integration development18% of the exam
Logs, metrics and tracing for observability
How logs, metrics and distributed traces answer different operational questions, what Anypoint Monitoring offers for each (with its tier and deployment limits), and how synthetic testing and real-user monitoring complement each other.
Describe and compare observability approaches for integration solutions including logs, metrics, and tracing.
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What the exam expects
- Choose metrics for trends, dashboards and threshold alerts across all traffic.
- Choose logs to investigate a specific event, error message or failure at a given time.
- Choose distributed tracing to follow one request across several services and see where time is spent.
- Compare synthetic testing with real-user monitoring and explain why teams combine them.
- Describe what Anypoint Monitoring provides and the limits on where traces are available.
Key terms:
- Metric: a numeric measurement such as uptime, response time, error rate or request volume, aggregated over time.
- Log: a detailed record of an event, such as a request path, response code and execution time.
- Trace: the path of one request through a service pipeline, made of spans from the root span down.
- Synthetic testing: simulated requests sent at regular intervals to measure availability and response times.
- Real-user monitoring (RUM): capturing actual user interactions to see how real users experience the API.
Key facts
Monitoring goal
- Detail
- Dashboards and alerts reduce MTTI
Metric scope
- Detail
- Application-level for Mule apps and APIs, not VPC traffic
Traces by cloud
- Detail
- US and EU control planes only
Mule app trace sampling
- Detail
- 10%
Trace hosts
- Detail
- CloudHub 2.0 and Runtime Fabric (Limited Availability)
Trace lookback
- Detail
- 15 minutes by default, up to seven days
Log Points
- Detail
- Real-time logs, no redeployment; Advanced or Titanium
Synthetic plus RUM
- Detail
- Combine them for a comprehensive view
- Why might a team on the Japan cloud find no Traces page in Anypoint Monitoring?
- When can a team without the Usage-based or Titanium tier still search logs?
- What does the root span of a trace represent?
- Which log levels can a Log Point generate for a connector?
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