Monitoring versu... I mean AND Observability
Chapter 3 of the O’Reilly book I’m co-authoring with Kentik CEO Avi Freedman is out today (you can download it here) and I wanted to share a bit that didn’t make it through the editing process, because even with the eBook edition, space (and reader attention) isn’t infinite.
Nevertheless, I thought the longer version was worth a look, for some of the points it made.
In the book, we wrote:
In blog articles you’ll see the phrase “reason about”, as in “its more data than one person can reason about”, which is a fancy way of saying “keep it all in your head enough to be able to find patterns”. I mention this because one differentiations between “observability” from “monitoring” is not just the sheer volume of data, but also the disparity of that day that makes it difficult, if not impossible, to reason about it.
But here’s the...
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