
— What even is Observability and how is it different from Monitoring?
— An overview of the three pillars of modern observability: logging, metrics collection, and request tracing
— The pros and cons of each in terms of resource utilization, ease of use, ease of operation, and cost effectiveness
— An honest look at the challenges involved in scaling all the three when used in conjunction
— What to monitor and how in a modern cloud native environment; what is better-suited to be aggregated as metrics versus being logged; how and when to use the data from all the three sources to derive actionable alerts and insightful analysis
— When it makes sense to augment the three aforementioned tools with additional tools