The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.
—Emily Greene Balch
If you search the Web for the definition of monitoring and observability, you’ll end up with almost as many definitions as there are results. Before we go into the nitty-gritty of textbook definitions, I’d like to focus on why we need these things at all. What purpose do they serve?
These tools provide actionable insight into our production ...
