Uma arquitetura para Softwares Móveis orientada à Observabilidade: o caso do Ibricks

Abstract

Observability refers to interpreting data received from a system to predict errors at the slightest data anomaly. The goal of an observability platform is to find the normal performance baseline of a system and then improve it. To achieve this goal, it’s necessary to relate three pillars: metrics (what to measure?), logs, and traces (where to extract metrics?). For effective and strategic observability, these pillars must be incorporated into software system architectures from the design phase. IBricks is a mobile software developed as a mini-world for the disciplines of mobile programming and project management in the Bachelor of Information Systems course at IFBA, Vitoria da Conquista ´ campus. The idea behind the application is to enable the rental of civil construction products through mobile devices. As this is a promising application with the potential to serve many customers and users, it’s crucial to have automated observability in place. This work aimed to incorporate observability principles into the IBricks architecture. As a contribution, it explores and describes how such principles can be automated and how they can potentially help manage this type of software.