Thermal spray coating process is a surface modification technique in which a coating material like cermet’s, metallic, ceramic and some other materials in form powder are feed into a torch or a gun, the powder inserted into torch will be melted by high temperature developed by torch. Coating thickness can achieve by applying multiple layer of melted coated material. This paper aims at the study of microstructural characterisation of thermal spray single layer and multi-layer coatings. Coatings on the substrate were followed by Scanning electron microscopy to know the different phases present in the coated as well uncoated SS 316L. By seeing SEM result it’s found that single layer coating is not done properly. As compared to SEM result of single layer coated AISI 316 L multilayer SEM results is more accurate, there is no crack on the coating surface and there is much less porosity in the multilayer coated sample.