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Role of Monitoring and Observability in Network Infrastructure
As previously introduced in Chapter 1, the relevance and scope of observability in IT infrastructure goes beyond networking, and most of the ideas and topics proposed in this book are easily portable to other infrastructure realms. However, we want to provide a closer look at networking and its own needs.
For this reason, before going into the pure observability topics, we think it’s important to give you a high-level overview of how networks have evolved in the last decade. With this context, it will be easier to later understand the requirements that we expect from a modern network observability solution.
Also in this chapter, we present a shift in how you understand your network. ...
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