Observability is typically divided into three key phases:
The three major pillars of observability are:
Monitoring Coverage: Ability to monitor all components of the application stack, including different languages, databases, and compute platforms.
Correlating Data: Difficulty in navigating and correlating metrics, logs, and traces across related resources.
Data Silos: Fragmentation of application data across different data stores, making it hard to get a unified view.
Distributed Tracing: Identifying which components are causing issues in distributed systems.
On-Call Investigations: Stress and lack of context when being paged during on-call incidents.