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Monitoring and Observability

A distributed system spreads one request across many machines. When it goes wrong, no single machine has the whole story. Monitoring and observability are how you get it back.

There are five components, and they answer different questions.

Metrics

Metrics are quantitative measurements that give insight into the performance, health and behaviour of a system. Latency, throughput, error rates and resource utilization are the usual ones.

Collecting and analysing them shows where the bottlenecks are and where problems are building

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Wasiu Yusuf

Wasiu Yusuf

· 2 months ago

This page needs an update to differentiate monitoring and observability. Current contents looks too generic.

Sivaram K

Sivaram K

· 4 months ago

What is the fundamental difference between Monitoring and Observability? What specific purpose do they each serve?

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