How is monitoring different than observability?
Two of the closest workflows and the two that are most often interchanged from a verbiage and explanation perspective are monitoring and observability. Although this chapter isn’t dedicated to observability, to truly understand the differences between monitoring and observability, you must understand both and ultimately see how they work. After the explanations in this section, you’ll see that there are key differences between observability and monitoring, along with differences in how they should be used, when they should be used, and the best practices for them.
What you might experience in organizations, depending on how mature their engineering teams are, is that monitoring and observability get thrown into one category. They are both either looked at the same way, or engineering teams think they’re doing observability when really all they’re doing is monitoring. One of the goals of this chapter is to...