Introduction to Observability – The New Stack

What Is Observability?

Observability is not a process but a concept. While its potential remains largely latent, its utility in DevOps is moving rapidly from monitoring and debugging. Automating analysis, making decisions and instrumenting decisions: these are just a few examples of how observability increasingly supports your IT operations and development processes.

The concept of observability can be applied to anything. When you bake a cake, you can think of the ingredients as the API — or the API as the recipe. You plug in the…