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Observability: The 5-Year RetrospectiveCategory: Software, Database, Data
Two years ago, I wrote a long retrospective of observability for its third anniversary. At the time, it’s what was needed to steer conversations away from silly rabbit holes about data types and back to what matters: how we understand our systems.
While observability is a richer, more powerful capability than monitoring — observability is the ability to find the information you need to analyze or debug software, while monitoring requires predicting in advance what data will be useful — we suspect that this shift is largely cosmetic.
In July of that year, I googled the definition of observability, and it resonated with me powerfully.
Here’s my definition of observability, for what it’s worth: Observability lets you find answers to application issues that are unknown-unknowns.
While observability is a richer, more powerful capability than monitoring — observability is the ability to find the information you need to analyze or debug software, while monitoring requires predicting in advance what data will be useful — we suspect that this shift is largely cosmetic.
In July of that year, I googled the definition of observability, and it resonated with me powerfully.
Here’s my definition of observability, for what it’s worth: Observability lets you find answers to application issues that are unknown-unknowns.
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