Summary
In this chapter, you have been introduced to monitoring and observability, how they are similar, and how they differ. The Agua Clara locks on the Panama Canal acted as a simplified example of the concepts of observability in practice. The key takeaway should be to understand that even when a system produces alerts for significant problems, the same data can be used to observe and investigate other potential problems.
We also talked about the customers who might use observability systems. These customers will be referenced throughout this book when we explore a concept and how to target its implementation.
Finally, we introduced the full Grafana Labs stack, and you should now have a good understanding of the different purposes that each product serves.
In the next chapter, we will introduce the basics of adding instrumentation to applications or infrastructure components for readers whose roles are similar to those of Diego and Ophelia.
