Preface

Monitoring, in my experience, is usually seen as the last step of the software development life cycle. It is, in most cases, the last of the DevOps life cycle under the operate section. This has made monitoring be on the back burner of the software development life cycle (SDLC). Monitoring is only mentioned when systems start having problems, such as availability and reliability. Then the monitoring infrastructure is questioned in terms of its viability and its availability.

This should not be the case – when an application is being planned, monitoring should be a part of it. This is the role observability plays, taking monitoring to a whole new level. Observability is now built into an application that is being developed to allow internal ...

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