
6/14/2022 · Mike Vanbuskirk
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This post defines and contrasts observability with traditional monitoring, emphasizing its importance in modern DevOps for holistic system understanding and debugging. It introduces the three fundamental pillars of observability (logs, metrics, tracing) and mentions OpenTelemetry as a standard. The post also highlights the benefits of observability for reducing MTTR, improving UX, and its role in chaos engineering and shifting left in the CI/CD pipeline.