Monitoring tells you when something’s wrong. Observability tells you why.
Core pillars:
- Metrics
- Logs
- Traces
Tooling like Prometheus + Grafana, ELK, and Zipkin or Jaeger are key.
Start with structured logs — everything else grows from there.
Observability vs Monitoring: Why It Matters
Author
Shiv Bade
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observability
logs
metrics
Published
November 1, 2016
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