Observability - What Is It?

Observability is an engineer's a capacity to understand the inner workings of the system. It can often be a precursor to the issues that would cause a user impacting or customer pacting events, says CTO John Boulden. If we do see a spike in the metrixah, that looks pretty bad, but may or may not have triggered an alarm,. Some one goes and looks at the logs, looks at the traces to try to figure out what happened then.

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