What is Observability?

What is observability? And why does it matter? Charity Majors gives an excellent overview.

This video is part of the Observability Foundations course at https://academy.honeycomb.io — it’s free; sign up to take the whole course.

00:00 –00:45 - Defining observability
00:45–01:10 - Origin of the term
01:10–02:30 - Observability vs. Monitoring
02:30–03:15 - The evolution of systems
03:15–04:00 - What makes observability different?
04:00–04:45 - Observability in the SDLC
04:45–05:30 - Answering complex questions with observability
05:30–06:15 - How telemetry data is used
06:15–07:00 - Reactive vs. proactive engineering
07:00–08:15 - Engineering and business alignment