What is Observability?

Опубликовано: 31 Июль 2026
на канале: Reliability Engineering
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Is "observability" just another name for "monitoring" or is it something else? In this episode, I'll share what observability really means and how it fits into your reliability practices.

This episode is a continuation of my exploration into the Hierarchy of Reliability and you can watch my overview at    • How to grow your SRE practice  

Additional content:
Google's Dapper project, one of the early, notable projects in Observability): https://research.google/pubs/pub36356/
OpenTelemetry, an open standard for distributed tracing: https://opentelemetry.io/
Using observability to generate Chaos Engineering experiments: https://www.gremlin.com/community/tut...