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Becoming a Rockstar SRE
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Becoming a Rockstar SRE

by Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami L. Anami
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Essential Observability – Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces (MELT)

If you cannot find any problems, then none exist! Are you sure about that? You probably wish this was true. However, in the systems visibility context, we can assume if we don’t find any problems, most likely, we have a blind spot. To illustrate that, how many times have an operations team heard about service degradation from its user first?

Observability, in making systems observable, is a notable feature of site reliability engineering but also one of its guiding principles. We can define it as the means of understanding the inner states of a system (or solution) by inspecting its outputs or signals. Although observability is an evolved telemetry model, where we want to collect ...

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