Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

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Post by martinsahlen » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 4:32 PM UTC

Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go
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Re: Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

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Post by valevk » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 4:54 PM UTC

Why does the author use double ticks? As far as I know you use only one.

  ID string ``json:"id"``

Re: Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

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Post by buro9 » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 4:57 PM UTC

valevk wrote: post #2

Why does the author use double ticks? As far as I know you use only one. ID string ``json:"id"``

That is an error and would not compile.

This code example has not gone through gofmt or been compiled... it is pseudo-Go

Re: Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

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Post by gronnbeck » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 4:57 PM UTC

valevk wrote: post #2

Why does the author use double ticks? As far as I know you use only one. ID string ``json:"id"``

Well, that is a typo. I'll fix it =) Thank you!

Re: Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

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Post by unfunco » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 5:22 PM UTC

gronnbeck wrote: post #4

valevk wrote: post #2

Why does the author use double ticks? As far as I know you use only one. ID string ``json:"id"``

Well, that is a typo. I'll fix it =) Thank you!

You should definitely run go fmt, at the moment it's rather difficult to read the examples.

Re: Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

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Post by libria » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 5:23 PM UTC

gronnbeck wrote: post #4

valevk wrote: post #2

Why does the author use double ticks? As far as I know you use only one. ID string ``json:"id"``

Well, that is a typo. I'll fix it =) Thank you!

datadoghq link is broken as well.

Re: Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

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Post by gronnbeck » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 5:31 PM UTC

unfunco wrote: post #5

gronnbeck wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, that is a typo. I'll fix it =) Thank you!

You should definitely run go fmt, at the moment it's rather difficult to read the examples.

I had to anonymize the code a bit and it seems like I messed up doing so in the gist. I am sorry! I will unsure to run it through gofmt the next time. Thank you for the feedback!

Re: Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

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Post by gronnbeck » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 5:31 PM UTC

libria wrote: post #6

gronnbeck wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, that is a typo. I'll fix it =) Thank you!

datadoghq link is broken as well.

Ah! Seems like I messed up the markdown. Fixed now. Thank you for your feedback.

Re: Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

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Post by travjones » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

I wasn't familiar with "synthetic transactions" until I read this post--great write up! Synthetic transactions are kind of like TDD on a live system (really loose analogy). It's a cool concept for keeping microservices consistent and bug-free by verifying responses return data that are expected.

Re: Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

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Post by twic » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 5:51 PM UTC

Note that this approach isn't just useful for microservices - it's a great way to monitor any complex system, even if it's a monolith.