Observability — Metrics, Logs, and Traces
Master the three pillars of observability, implement distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, and build dashboards that actually help you debug production issues.
Monitoring tells you something is broken. Observability tells you why it is broken. The difference matters at 3 AM when your system is failing and you need to find the root cause before your users wake up.
A monitored system has dashboards that turn red when things go wrong. An observable system has the instrumentation to answer arbitrary questions about what happened and why — even questions you did not anticipate when you built the system.
The Three Pillars
Observability rests on three complementary data types. Each answers a different question:
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