● You monitor what you know ● You react after it has failed. ● What about unknown-unknowns? ● Doesn’t avoid failures. ● Tells something broke and now it isn’t. ● Always a comparative operator. Question: What is Monitoring?
Unlike monitoring, observability is not failure-centric. If your job allows, you can use it to understand system performance, just-like-that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯