Monitoring & Observability
Learn monitoring fundamentals including metrics, logs, traces, Prometheus, Grafana, alerting strategies, and SLIs/SLOs/SLAs.
Monitoring & Observability
Learn monitoring fundamentals including metrics, logs, traces, Prometheus, Grafana, alerting strategies, and SLIs/SLOs/SLAs.
What is Observability?
Observability is the ability to understand a system's internal state from its external outputs. Built on three pillars: metrics (what is happening), logs (why it's happening), traces (where it's happening). Enables debugging complex distributed systems.
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