Observability moves to the center of the distributed systems conversation
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In an age of distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and workloads, the act of “monitoring” has morphed into “observability,” yet both remain important as enterprises manage complex hybrid and multicloud infrastructure.
The distinction between monitoring and observability can be tricky to pin down. But the two terms are increasingly being differentiated by monitoring solutions for traditional system architectures without total visibility and observability for an end-to-end systems view that establishes a level of cause rather than just effect. Observability for enterprise systems means understanding not just “what,” but “why.”