[Hawkular-dev] Definition the concept of Application in Hawkular BTM

[Heiko W.Rupp]

On 12 May 2016, at 14:47, Gary Brown wrote:
> So possibly rather than application, it should be termed "service"? 
> which would actually match the microservices world better anyway.

An application is in my understanding composed of multiple services.
Those can be micro services calling other micro services, external 
providers
or things just like a database. Some may be provided by multiple micro 
services
running (or being deployed) in parallel on several machines.

I don't think the concept of an application in the BTM world is much 
different
from what we always said.

A user first wants to know "is my application doing all right?". And if 
not,
she wants to zoom in to figure out where bottlenecks are.
The other direction is true as well: the user sees a machine clamped at 
100%
cpu and wants to see what is creating the load, which service and 
ultimately
which application (and if only for billing purposes).