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What Is Observability? Examples of How It Can Help You

Observability is the practice of understanding systems, applications, and infrastructure to identify issues quickly and take corrective action. Key characteristics of observable systems include visibility, instrumentation, data accessibility, and alerts. It improves team collaboration, differs from monitoring by providing real-time visibility, and has three pillars:

  • logs,
  • metrics,
  • traces.
Examples of observability include debugging distributed systems and analyzing system performance. Observability tools can be divided into true observability tools (e.g., Netreo, Datadog) and tools offering infrastructure monitoring under the observability name.


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