Summary

Now that we have come to the end of this chapter, we hope that you have a fair understanding of observability and how it differs from monitoring. Infrastructure and application monitoring has always existed in the IT landscape, but the techniques are no longer enough for modern and complex application architectures. The major drivers of this fallout are the volume and velocity of the data generated by complex and modern architectures. Therefore, observability is seen as next-generation monitoring that correlates assets, applications, businesses, and customers.

People, tools, and the organization’s culture play a major role in observability implementations; we will discuss them in detail in further chapters.