What is Observability?

Is "observability" just another name for "monitoring" or is it something else? In this episode, I'll share what observability really means and how it fits into your reliability practices.

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[arunulianchery]

One of the best tech video I have seen in a long time. Super simplified. Super Informative

[GauravGupta-nckn]

Great video, great explanation. It cleared many of my doubts.

[SergejLempl]

You are talking about Monitoring and calling it Observability. :)
From what I know and understand Monitoring is just one part of the Observability.
If you take into account that Customer feedback about your product, number of complaints and not even tart about security and data integrity - we are not talking about distributed tracing or Monitoring alone - we are talking about Observability. Set of tools, competencies, knowledge of the system and its environment all combine in Observability. :)

[christophermaduka]

Nice informative Video, the high background music is a bit distracting tho

[snehajayakumar]

That was really good session, can I know which is best observability tool for the Testing purpose. Please mention the video for the tool you suggest. Thanks

[danielrodriguezgil]

Hi, does it make sense to mention logs and metrics as part of observability as well? Tracing need to be sampled in high-load services, and that means we could lose part of the data… Also, we usually need logs to be able to know what happened more accurately. And metrics are useful for measuring things like how mate times this function was call, from how many users and so on… I could be totally wrong, just asking for your opinion. Thanks for the video!

[th_CAV_Trooper]

You had my subscription at "we don't park dogs"

[yogeshrajput]

We want to use these videos in our SRE certifications that we offer to the learners, Please advise

[ericksonjosephsantos]

Hi, Jason. Do you have any courses about Monitoring and Observability to help me gain knowledge and start from the ground up? Our company mainly use Datadog to monitor our cloud resources and k8s environments. Tools like Prometheus and Grafana are being used also.