Observability goes beyond logs, metrics, and traces, and it’s up to you as a manager of engineers to set out the vision and policies to make that possible.
Observability is a term that has leapt from the obscurity of engineering textbooks and into common usage across the technology industry. At its core, observability is an ideal state, where the inner workings of software systems can be monitored and maintained. This goal has become increasingly important today, as organizations struggled to understand the inner workings of more and more complex, distributed applications.
While certain tools can help developers and site reliability engineers (SREs) strive towards this goal, it’s up to you as an engineering leader to lay down the policies and a vision to make observability possible.
