Jessica Kerr on Observability and Honeycomb's Use of AWS Lambda for Retriever
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Observability Turns Monitoring on Its Head
Riht: Observability is a new thing. It's different from monitoring. Monitoring is i need to know what my system is doing so that i can react if it changes. Observation turns that on its head in the sense that we're not going to optimize for grafts by counting. We're just going to store that something happened. This takes more storage. And then you don't out more because all you have is a count. So observeability says, we're going to get all these grafts, but not by counting what we think we need to count, but by remembering everything important that happened.
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