The business value of observability data

In today’s modern business, a network is a valuable asset that transports data to a company. You could be operating a retail environment that needs to have connectivity to process transactions on a card network to a software development shop, because of which the network is vital to providing connectivity to the resources that a business relies on. Therefore, knowing the operational state of the network is critical to the day-to-day operations of the business. In short, the network is a critical part of the business.

In Chapter 10, we introduced real-world architectures for observability. The collection of network metrics, logs, and events is a key driver of the capability to measure the state of a network. Is the network performing to its capability? Have the network service providers you have contracted met their SLAs? These are questions that you should be able to determine with a modern network observability solution, as well as...