  The evolution of decentralized microservice-based systems is challenging.
These challenges are classified into static and dynamic categories. Regarding
the static perspective, documenting and visualizing the fluid application
topology is something few have been able to accomplish. Building an
architecture map of services design is a complicated task in its interpretation
rather than construction. Therefore, the system-centric and up-to-date view
became essential for such distributed systems. The dynamic perspective
considers the process of investigation and service path detection. Therefore
performing root cause analysis is a burdening task; such that tracing data is
needed to be put in the right context to facilitate the investigation.
Moreover, visualizing these traces over the traditional visualization
techniques couldn't be feasible with the large number of microservices involved
in the system. This paper proposes a visualization concept for
microservices-based systems using the Augmented Reality (AR) technique, which
merges these static and dynamic behaviors into a single centric view. In
addition, we challenge the difficulty related to tracing and debugging an issue
in such distributed systems. This concept is designed to work as a dynamic
documentation and traceability platform for these systems. A proof of concept
and a research study are implemented to show the viability and success of this
proposal.
