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Observability: Monitoring, Logging, and Tracing

Implement comprehensive observability. Metrics, logs, traces, and modern observability platforms.

Rottawhite Team13 min readFebruary 3, 2025

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Three Pillars of Observability

Metrics, logs, and traces provide complete system visibility.

Metrics

System health indicators

Performance tracking

Alerting basis

Tools: Prometheus, Datadog

Logs

Event records

Debugging information

Audit trails

Tools: ELK Stack, Loki

Traces

Request flows

Distributed systems

Latency analysis

Tools: Jaeger, Zipkin

Implementation

Instrument applications

Collect data

Centralize storage

Create dashboards

Set up alerts

Best Practices

Correlate across pillars

Context-rich logging

Sampling strategies

Alert on symptoms

Conclusion

Observability is essential for operating reliable distributed systems.

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