Monitoring

Question 1

Your API is starting to act slow, please describe your process to investigate and find the root cause

Answer 1

1. Look at metrics, response time, latency, etc
2. Look at releases that happened
3. Look at application logs (datadog, sumologic, aws cloudwatch)
4. If using a database look at the database performance (CPU, memory). Check for locked queries or if database missing an index?
5. look at downstream dependencies? outages?