Monitoring vs. Observability — What, why, and how!

Observability is a new and hot topic today that stirs much debate around its difference with monitoring. Although observability and monitoring complement each other, each serves different purposes. Monitoring finds out when something is wrong, while observability helps you understand why. In fact, monitoring is a subset of and key action for observability because you can only monitor a system that’s observable.

Monitoring keeps track of an application’s overall health and collects data on how it’s performing in terms of access speeds, downtime, connectivity, etc. On the other hand, observability delves much deeper into the “what” and “why” of the operations by providing granular and context-specific insight into failure modes.. Read More..

Our blog article by Muralidharan Krishnamoorthy sheds more light on this contentious subject and brings some clarity. Read More..

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