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Observability is a critical component of modern software development, providing insights into system performance, availability, and quality. The blog delves into the concept of observability, differentiating it from traditional monitoring.

Key points covered include:

Evolution of observability: From system-centric monitoring to service-focused observability in microservices architectures.

Three pillars of observability: Metrics, logs, and traces, their roles, and popular tools (Prometheus, ELK Stack, Jaeger).

Building a comprehensive observability strategy: Best practices like data centralization, quality, alerting, visualization, correlation, anomaly detection, and continuous improvement.

Challenges: Data volume, complexity, tooling, and skillset requirements.

Overall, the blog emphasizes the importance of observability for understanding system behavior, improving performance, and ensuring reliability.

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Organizations prioritize observability solutions to tackle rising cloud expenses and pinpoint underlying factors responsible for cost increases.

LOGIQ.AI provides topology-based federated observability, enabling organizations to achieve full-stack visibility, find root causes of problems quickly, and prevent issues before they become costly.

The benefits of federated observability include improved scalability, enhanced security, better collaboration, greater flexibility, increased cost-effectiveness, and improved decision-making.

Logiq is developing an observability maturity model to help organizations achieve open observability, offering tools that simplify data analysis and handling while leveraging existing teams.