Deployment Environments

A greenfield deployment involves the design, installation, and configuration of Monitoring Tools where nothing existed before. To monitor the containerized applications, SaaS, Microservices, and their dependencies, Container Observability is designed for you to easily deploy and monitor your application by collecting information on telemetry including Logs, Metrics, Flows, Traces, and Events, together with configuration and all required metadata. To set up monitoring, see Deploying the South side components.

Brownfield deployment is where the user integrates and leverages existing monitoring tools already available in their environments such as Prometheus to collect the metrics as well as L4 and L7 network-level flow metrics via the eBPF module provided in the Node Exporter provided by Container Observability.

Container Observability is divided into two parts ‘South’ and ‘North’. South describes the various monitoring components and gateways that collect the data in the User’s environment. North is the Container Observability controller, including the UI for the User, that analyzes the data streamed from the South components to extract insights for observability. It is deployed in two different models.