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What is Observability
Observability is the ability of the internal states of a system to be inferred from external outputs. Without it, your team’s productivity could be greatly diminished. That’s because you may be using too many monitoring tools to get the job done, leaving you with siloed insights that are hard to make sense of.
For example, without observability, it will be difficult to understand if an online banking application has a risk of going offline because of a change made deep in the stack to a database configuration or other change.
Let’s take a deeper dive into observability and how it benefits your IT team.
Observability vs. Monitoring: What’s the Difference?
They may seem similar on the surface, but there are some key differences when it comes to observability vs. monitoring. Ultimately, observability measures your understanding of the system’s internal states from external outputs. Monitoring is the process that comes after the system is observable.
Other differences include:
Observability asks questions from the outside, which helps you better understand your internal production system.
Typically, monitoring tracks metric values from previous known issues.