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@squadcast shared a post, 9 months ago

Observability: A Deep Dive into Tools, Best Practices, and Examples

Observability is a critical component of modern software development, providing insights into system performance, availability, and quality. The blog delves into the concept of observability, differentiating it from traditional monitoring.

Key points covered include:

Evolution of observability: From system-centric monitoring to service-focused observability in microservices architectures.

Three pillars of observability: Metrics, logs, and traces, their roles, and popular tools (Prometheus, ELK Stack, Jaeger).

Building a comprehensive observability strategy: Best practices like data centralization, quality, alerting, visualization, correlation, anomaly detection, and continuous improvement.

Challenges: Data volume, complexity, tooling, and skillset requirements.

Overall, the blog emphasizes the importance of observability for understanding system behavior, improving performance, and ensuring reliability.

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@ninaddesai shared a link, 1 week, 1 day ago
Staff Engineer, Infracloud

Eliminating Observability Vendor Lock-in with OpenTelemetry: A Hands-On Demo

Struggling to switch from Prometheus to Elasticsearch without rewriting your app? This hands-on guide shows how OpenTelemetry decouples your observability backend with zero app changes. Includes working Docker-based examples and step-by-step guidance.

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Prometheus visualizing myapp_requests_total metric via OpenTelemetry and Docker-based Python app
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@prathamesh-sonpatki shared a link, 1 year, 10 months ago
SRE, Last9.io

o11y.wiki - A glossary of all terms related to Observability, starting from A to Z!

The inspiration for this project started from the desire to understand and document terms and concepts related to Observability in one single place... read more  

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@mohammad_zaigam shared a link, 2 years, 1 month ago
Technical Solutions Specialist, Logiq.ai

Federated Observability: The Key to Achieving Business Agility

Organizations prioritize observability solutions to tackle rising cloud expenses and pinpoint underlying factors responsible for cost increases.

LOGIQ.AI provides topology-based federated observability, enabling organizations to achieve full-stack visibility, find root causes of problems quickly, and prevent issues before they become costly.

The benefits of federated observability include improved scalability, enhanced security, better collaboration, greater flexibility, increased cost-effectiveness, and improved decision-making.

Logiq is developing an observability maturity model to help organizations achieve open observability, offering tools that simplify data analysis and handling while leveraging existing teams.

Federated Observability: The Key to Achieving Business Agility