Have you ever deep dived into the sea of your tracing data, but wanted additional context around your underlying system? For instance, it may be easy to see when/where certain users are experiencing latency, but what if you needed to know what garbage collection is mucking up the place or which allocated memory is taking a beating? Imagine having a complete visual on how an application is performing when you need it, without having to manually dig through logs and multiple UI screens.

In 2021, any time that you access any kind of web service, whether it be via a website or app, chances are high that the backend is running on Kubernetes. Hundreds of thousands of organizations rely on Kubernetes to power and manage their mission critical services every day, and the reliability and scalability benefits offered by Kubernetes have been felt across the industry.

In the computing world, Observability and Monitoring has got an important place. The recent days have witnessed a great use of these terms in the IT infrastructure and among the developers, as observability and monitoring have been extremely effective in tracking the events. Both systems are intertwined to each other, but there is a small line of separation among the two. What? Why? What's the difference? These are the questions that has to be answered. Let's figure out the reasons here.