In a complex distributed environment with serverless architecture, maintaining the health of your tech stack is crucial for business success. Monitoring tools track key performance indicators and send alerts about issues as they arise, while observability allows deeper understanding of why these issues occur by analyzing system outputs. The four traditional pillars of observability—metrics, events, logs, and traces—collectively enable this understanding, and a fifth pillar, profiling, has been introduced for detailed resource usage analysis. Instrumentation plays a vital role in generating necessary data for effective observability.
Monitoring is reactive. Observability is proactive. Observability helps understand what monitoring detects.
Your company's success directly depends on the health of its tech stack—including its IT infrastructure, technology systems, digital platforms, and networks.
Collection
[
|
...
]