What is Observability?
Observability is the ability to understand the inside of the system with external data.
Definition and Word Origin
"Observe" means to observe. The error light tells you the problem, the dashboard explains why. Observability is the panel: The source of slowness and deviation is found with the data.
How to Know and Use in Daily Life?
Presenter: Finding the source of slowness.
Model: Deviation monitoring.
Product: Usage tracking.
Technical Depth and Architecture
Three columns:
Log: Event lines.
Metric: Numerical measurements.
Trace: The journey of desire.
The connector is the correlation ID: The same request is searched with the same ID in all three columns.
istek_id=abc123 adım=odeme sonuc=ok sure_ms=42OpenTelemetry is the common format. Cost rule: Instead of storing everything indefinitely, a sampling and duration policy is applied.
Frequently Mixed Things
It is considered monitoring. Monitoring monitors the threshold, observability explains the reason. One is alarm, the other is diagnostic.
Use in Different Disciplines
Panel: Speed and fuel gauges.
Hospital: Patient monitor.
Cockpit: Flight screens.
Questions and answers
Why isn't registration enough?
The record tells the problem, not the cause. When the three columns come together, the picture is completed.
Is it necessary for every system?
It would be an exaggeration in a simple task, but it would be vital in a fragmented system. Scale decides.
What does it cost?
There is a transportation and storage fee. Sampling and duration policy keeps the cost.
Where to start?
From structured record and correlation ID. Then the metric and trace are added.
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