An Overview of Observability
TL;DR Observability is the ability to understand what is going on in the inner workings of a system just by observing it from the outside. Your software should explain itself and what is doing! Pillars of observability are logs, metrics, traces, and events. Logs are structured logging or non-structured textual data. Used for auditing and debugging purposes. Very expensive at scale. Cannot be used for real-time computational purposes. Hard to track across different and distributed processes....