Tag: Observability
đź©ş Monitoring Is a Health Check, Not a Lie Detector
Metrics are symptoms, not verdicts. This ELI5 article explains monitoring through the metaphor of a doctor visit, showing why numbers alone do not tell the full story. Learn how good SRE teams use metrics, context, and user impact together to diagnose system health instead of treating dashboards like lie detectors.
🍽️ Your System Is a Restaurant Kitchen
Modern systems are like busy restaurant kitchens. Different services handle different tasks, dependencies act like ingredients, and bottlenecks slow everything down. This ELI5 guide explains microservices, system dependencies, and production bottlenecks in a simple and memorable way using the metaphor of a dinner rush in a restaurant.
🍕 SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets Explained with Pizza Delivery
SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets define reliability in modern SRE teams. Using a simple pizza delivery metaphor, this article explains why perfection isn’t required, how reliability targets work, and why error budgets help teams balance innovation and stability without burning out.
🚨 Alerts Are Smoke Alarms, Not Screaming Toddlers
Alerts should be like smoke alarms—rare, loud, and only triggered by real danger. If your monitoring screams for burnt toast, engineers will ignore it. This ELI5 guide explains alert fatigue, actionable alerts, and why good alerting keeps systems—and humans—safe.
The Observability Field Manual – Now Available!
The **Observability Field Manual** is now available! This hands-on guide covers everything from metrics and logs to distributed tracing and instrumentation, helping you build reliable, transparent systems. Whether you’re a DevOps engineer, SRE, or software developer, this book provides the tools and techniques needed to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize complex architectures. Start your observability journey…
Monitoring & Observability: Sherlock Holmes for Your Systems
Monitoring and observability are like detective work for your systems – they help you catch issues early, understand performance, and prevent outages. Learn how to use logs, metrics, and traces to solve tech mysteries and keep your applications running smoothly.
The Observability Field Manual – Now Available!
The Observability Field Manual is now available! This hands-on guide covers everything from metrics and logs to distributed tracing and instrumentation, helping you build reliable, transparent systems. Whether you’re a DevOps engineer, SRE, or software developer, this book provides the tools and techniques needed to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize complex architectures. Start your observability journey…
Announcing the Observability Field Manual
In the fast-paced world of modern IT and software development, staying on top of system health and performance is critical. Observability isn’t just a buzzword; it’s the cornerstone of building reliable, scalable systems. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the Observability Field Manual, our latest project dedicated to empowering professionals with the knowledge and tools…
