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RED Method

The focus of the RED method is services. Typically, cloud services in a microservices architecture.

It can be summarized as: For every service, check the request rate, errors, and duration per request

The metrics to check are:

  1. Request rate: The number of requests per second
  2. Errors: The number of requests that failed
  3. Duration: The time for requests to completes