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Understanding Observability

Observability, in the context of DevOps, refers to the capacity to track and analyze important data, such as system performance, resource consumption, and error rates, to spot possible issues and raise the system’s overall stability and reliability. Observability can be thought of as insights into metrics, traces, and logs in a microservices architecture’s implementation environment. Some claim that observability is more akin to continuously monitoring various pipeline components to maintain compliance, checking metrics continuously for vulnerabilities based on a risk level, and more.

There’s one thing to remember: observability is not to be confused with monitoring or application performance monitoring. These are ...

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