Observability is the ability to measure the internal state of a system by examining its outputs. It enables you to understand what is happening, why it’s happening, and how it’s happening within your application infrastructure.
- Indicates what is happening in the system.
- Tracks performance indicators like CPU usage, memory usage, and request rates.
- Supports monitoring of system health and performance.
- Explains why something occurred.
- Captures detailed records of system events, errors, and other notable events.
- Facilitates troubleshooting and debugging.
- Illustrates how processes are happening.
- Tracks the flow of requests across services in distributed systems.
- Essential for tracing the journey of a transaction or request through multiple services.
Metrics = Monitoring | Logs = Logging | Traces = Tracing
