A peek into observability from a tester's lens –Parveen Khan – XConf Europe 2022

The word “observability” is thrown around quite a bit these days. What does this mean? Is it just another new acronym for monitoring? In the current era, organizations are building applications with more complex architectures such as — blockchain, distributed systems and microservices. The job of maintaining these systems and ensuring they are working as expected has become a challenging task. Gone are the days where testers had to rely on the UI’s to validate an application. Now it is all about what happens underneath the hood. I worked on a distributed system where no one had any idea of what was going on and why there were production issues. We had some monitoring and logging in place, but we had no clue where, how and what to look out for whenever there was a problem. Join this session, where I discuss my journey with Observability. I will share how I discovered various insights about my system by using this approach. How I learned this technique and implemented it within my engineering team.