Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery » FAQ
How does monitoring compare to observability?
Every company should track a small set of business and system metrics tied to user outcomes, while observability adds the ability to investigate unknown failures through rich telemetry. Monitoring detects known problems; observability helps explain and resolve novel ones.
Practical guidance
- Track business, reliability, and delivery-flow metrics together.
- Define alerting around user impact and error budget consumption.
- Collect metrics, logs, traces, and events with consistent metadata.
- Use dashboards for detection and deep exploratory tools for diagnosis.