Introduction

Once we have our event-driven distributed application in production, there may be some cases where the behavior or performance of our application is not what we expected. This unexpected performance could be because our application has a higher load than expected, because some component is acting as a bottleneck and should be scaled or because a message is stuck or causing problems somewhere in our system architecture.

Before randomly jumping into the various software components trying to locate the source of the problem, it would be helpful to have a bird’s-eye view of our system and see where the potential issues might be.

In this guide, we will see how you can connect your Axon Framework-based application to the AxonIQ Console and get this comprehensive view of your system behavior. We will use the bike-rental demo application during the guide, but you can use the instructions provided in the guide to connect your own Axon Framework-based application.