Observability isn’t only helpful when dealing with outages.
Engineering teams are often led to believe that observability is something to concern yourself with only when dealing with service outages. But while it is indeed crucial to be able to ask questions of your systems during an incident, and rapidly get answers, this is not the only way to reap the benefits of observability. Personally, I have found immense value from leveraging observability in many other scenarios. Here I’m going to outline a few of them, and share some tips for expanding your use cases, so that your team can start making the most of observability.