Hi, does it make sense to mention logs and metrics as part of observability as well? Tracing need to be sampled in high-load services, and that means we could lose part of the data… Also, we usually need logs to be able to know what happened more accurately. And metrics are useful for measuring things like how mate times this function was call, from how many users and so on… I could be totally wrong, just asking for your opinion. Thanks for the video!
You're not wrong! Unfortunately, as mentioned in the video, we're really bad at naming things in tech. Observability *should* include metrics and logs (and likely profiles and other data), but for a long time you would see APM/Tracing tools claiming that metrics and logs were *not* observability and that their tools (without metrics or logs) *were* observability. I think the trend is starting to shift as more of the traditional metrics and logging companies have added tracing to their toolboxes.
That was really good session, can I know which is best observability tool for the Testing purpose. Please mention the video for the tool you suggest. Thanks
You are talking about Monitoring and calling it Observability. :) From what I know and understand Monitoring is just one part of the Observability. If you take into account that Customer feedback about your product, number of complaints and not even tart about security and data integrity - we are not talking about distributed tracing or Monitoring alone - we are talking about Observability. Set of tools, competencies, knowledge of the system and its environment all combine in Observability. :)
Yes! You're absolutely correct! Real observability encompasses a lot of things, which is why I started out by saying we're really bad at naming things in tech and have made the term "observability" mean something that it did not initially mean.
Hi, Jason. Do you have any courses about Monitoring and Observability to help me gain knowledge and start from the ground up? Our company mainly use Datadog to monitor our cloud resources and k8s environments. Tools like Prometheus and Grafana are being used also.
Hey, definitely check out learn.datadoghq.com, since you're using Datadog. Also check out Mike Julian's book "Practical Monitoring" www.amazon.com/Practical-Monitoring-Effective-Strategies-World-ebook/dp/B076XZWQVW
