Observability means having ways to monitor, track, and understand the internal state of your system by collecting and analyzing data it produces. This data can include logs, metrics, and traces. The goal of observability is to be able to: 1. Detect problems quickly, 2. Figure out why those problems are happening, 3. Understand how the system is performing overall
favorite observability tooling
taking First steps in observability
- show something about the current state of the system
- e.g. percentage of cpu that is being used
- a number visible already has an effect on teams