As applications and architectures become increasingly complex, monitoring application health is more critical than ever. Developers, support teams, and site reliability engineers need real-time insights into performance metrics, logs, and execution traces to ensure smooth operations.

Traditionally, achieving this required integrating multiple frameworks and tools for data collection, analysis, and visualization—often leading to fragmented solutions.

Earlier this week I presented my talk "Need something simpler than Kubernetes?" to the CNCF Linz community.

This post is a follow-up explaining how to deploy a native workload to Nomad. Nomad is unique because of its hybrid support for many types of workload. While Kubernetes has been designed for managing container-only workloads, Nomad’s pluggable task drivers allows scheduling container, Java, native (raw), QEMU/KVM, etc. workloads.