A Beginner’s Guide to Observability Seeing everything, everywhere, all at once — and why it matters

In many ways, your organisation is similar to a bustling city — complex, growing, and full of moving parts. It’s a metropolis of microservices, cloud providers, serverless functions, and third-party APIs. While it may be thriving, chaos could be lurking in the shadows, threatening to upend your success. At any moment, unexpected performance issues or downtime could spell disaster for your business. A critical app could crash, your website could slow to a crawl, or worse — your website could go completely dark during your busiest time of year. In the event of a disaster like this, alarms are blaring, customers are complaining, and your team is scrambling to find answers. You need a hero. That hero is observability.