Conclusion

Well done! You have completed the Observing Node.js Microservices with Metrics workshop!

Learning Objectives Recap

  • How to automatically capture metrics from the Docker daemon
  • How to manually generate and send custom metrics from your services using the Node.js OpenTelemetry API
  • How to use an OpenTelemetry Collector to receive, process and export metric data to Cloud Observability
  • How to query and interact with your metric data in Cloud Observability

Next Steps

In this workshop you learned how to capture and query metrics from your Node.js microservices. If you haven’t already, we recommend that you complete the other workshops in this series (Logs is next if you are following in order). See the links below to those and other resources to continue enablement journey with OpenTelemetry and the Cloud Observability SaaS platform.