Elevator Pitch
In a complex, multi-layered, distributed computing environment with so many interdependencies that is impossible to keep track of, full-stack observability enables organizations to find needle in the haystack, by identifying and responding to systems issues before they affect customers.
Description
Complex modern infrastructure involves distributed components like cloud, containers, microservices, serverless, and a lot more combinations of these technologies. As the usability and complexity of your system increases with too many moving parts, it becomes difficult to analyze the problems and predict future ones. System availability and performance are not stand-alone goals hence non-availability and under-performance of applications and systems in IT landscape will negatively affect user experience and customer satisfaction causing revenue losses for organizations.
Observability is the ability to understand a system’s internal states from external outputs such as logs, metrics, and traces. Observability is a technical solution that uses instrumentation to gather insights, and explore patterns and properties not defined in advance. Actionable insights obtained by evaluating the outputs generated by software systems enable you to reach meaningful conclusions into your system’s health. Observability provides multiple stakeholders with actionable insights into the complex, multi-layered, distributed IT infrastructure and is a critical capability of modern enterprises.
Observability enables end-to-end data visibility across multi-layered IT architecture simplifying root cause analysis. DevOps and SRE teams can quickly identify and resolve issues no matter where they originate or at what point in the software lifecycle they emerge. This talk will provide you with an understanding of methods, processes and tools that can leveraged for building an enterprise scale observability platform.