System and microservice for monitoring a plant of process automation

A microservice for use in a system comprising:

• a system for monitoring a plant of automation technology, wherein the plant has a plurality of field devices and the field devices can communicate via at least a first communication network with one another and with a control unit, comprising:
• an execution electronics, which can communicate with at least one of the field devices;
• and a configuration electronics, which is arranged removed from the execution electronics and which can communicate with the execution electronics via a second communication network, wherein:
• said configuration electronics and/or the execution electronics has at least one microservice, which is appropriate for the type of the field device and which is embodied to provide at least one functionality for execution in the execution electronics and/or in the configuration electronics;
• wherein the microservice is generated based on a device model produced from information concerning the field device, wherein the device model is a EDD- or FDI-device description.