A Beginner’s Guide to Observability

A Beginner’s Guide to Observability

Splunk
Published by: Research Desk Released: Sep 17, 2021

As customer and business demands accelerate, site reliability engineers, ITOps teams, developers and management need operational visibility into their entire architecture. But complex modern infrastructure and applications make answering questions about what happened, who was affected and how it can be fixed more difficult than ever. Observability systems enable you to inspect and understand your application stack — but what is observability, and how does it differ from simple monitoring?

Get your copy of A Beginner’s Guide to Observability to learn:

  • The complementary relationship between observability and monitoring
  • The three critical pillars to achieve observability
  • How to build observability into your application environment
  • How observability helps you tame complexity and reduce MTTR