Tag: Observability

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Glossary Terms

APM tracks application latency, errors, transactions, and resource use so teams can diagnose performance issues in production.

Infrastructure monitoring collects metrics from servers, networks, databases, and cloud resources to catch failure signals early.

Observability is the ability to understand a system's internal state from its external outputs (logs, metrics, traces) — a key DevOps principle.

OpenTelemetry is an open-source framework for collecting logs, metrics, and traces in a standard format for application observability.

SRE applies software engineering to reliability work, including automation, incident response, capacity planning, and service targets.

SLIs and SLOs define measurable service signals and the reliability targets teams commit to for those signals over time.