In the era of services architecture, reliability engineering, and container orchestration, the word “observability” is widely used but rarely clearly defined. What is “observability” really? Of the various observability concepts and tools, what are the distinctions and overlaps in various technologies? This talk should help attendees answer questions like:

• “How do I compare logging and exception handling?”
• “Do I need distributed tracing?”
• “What is ‘instrumentation’ exactly? Is it the same as visualization?”