What is Observability?
In Anders' presentation, ‘Observability Do's and Don'ts,’ he explains what observability is, the most common pitfalls, and how to succeed in your observability journey. You can find the entire presentation in the video below.
Anders begins his presentation with a brief introduction to the topic and explains that observability is something a system has, while monitoring is something we do. Then things move quickly!
The following topics are covered in the presentation:
- What is observability?
- Application and system observability
- Shifting focus from infrastructure to application
- Building an observable system
- Monitor complex systems and observability tools
- What should we observe?
- What is a metric?
- What are traces?
- What are logs?
- Correlation between observation data
- How do we make data useful?
- Creating aggregated relationships
- Do's and Don'ts - Observability
