Unraveling observability
The rise of microservices, distributed architectures, and cloud-native technologies has made systems more complex. Services now operate across multiple nodes and diverse infrastructures, making traditional management methods inadequate and troubleshooting in distributed environments much more challenging.
Maintaining system reliability and performance in this ever-changing landscape requires more than just monitoring set metrics. When issues cascade across services or unexpected latency spikes occur, you need deeper visibility, where observability becomes essential. Let’s understand what observability is.
What is observability?
Observability refers to the capability to assess a system’s internal state by analyzing its external outputs, such as logs, metrics, and traces. The more observable a system is, the faster and more precisely we can trace a performance issue back to its root cause without needing to conduct further tests or write...
