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Observability platforms
From the course: Site Reliability Engineering Essential Training
Observability platforms
Observability platforms. What are the various observability platforms out there that you can use? And there are tons, but first, let me clarify one thing. You do not have to get hung up on the naming, monitoring versus observability. There is a lot of arguments and chaos out there in industry about, what is monitoring and what is observability. My recommendation is, you don't have to get hung up on these. You can use them interchangeably. With that said, though, there are some subtle differences that have evolved in the recent times between observability and monitoring. Let's explore them. Comparing monitoring and observability. Monitoring usually is metrics-focused. I discussed metrics in the previous section. Monitoring usually is metrics-focused. Observability, on the other hand, utilizes logs, metrics, and traces, and synthetics. All the telemetry signals available. Monitoring usually refers to measurement of a known attribute. For example, you monitor the CPU utilization. You…
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