From the course: DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability
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Pillars of observability
From the course: DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability
Pillars of observability
- [Instructor] The observability pillars we will discuss in this course are: metrics, logs, traces, and events. Metrics are numeric values that provide insights into the characteristics of a system. They are data points that can be aggregated and analyzed statistically, which then give you a measurement of a system's performance. You might be familiar with metrics like CPU usage or memory usage. These are measurements for the utilization of CPU and memory resources for a piece of infrastructure. Similarly, you can have other metrics measuring your application's performance, as we'll see as we go along in the course. Logs are text records that are outputs from either infrastructure or applications. They're usually a representation of what is happening within your infrastructure or service. Different services come with some default logs. However, software developers can also define custom logs for their services as well.…
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