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Observability as code

Published : Nov 14, 2018
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Nov 2018
Trial ? Worth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.

The observability is an integral part of operating a distributed and microservices architecture. We rely on different system outputs such as distributed tracing, aggregate logs and metrics to infer the internal state of the distributed components, diagnose where the problems are and get to the root cause. An important aspect of an observability ecosystem is monitoring—visualizing and analyzing the system's output—and alerting when unexpected conditions are detected. Traditionally, configuration of monitoring dashboards and setting up alerts is done through GUI-based point-and-click systems. This approach leads to nonrepeatable dashboard configurations, no ability to continuously test and adjust alerts to avoid alert fatigue or missing out on important alerts, and drift from organizational best practices. We highly recommend treating your observability ecosystem configurations as code, called observability as code , and adopt infrastructure as code for your monitoring and alerting infrastructure. Choose observability products that support configuration through version-controlled code and execution of APIs or commands via infrastructure CD pipelines. Observability as code is an often-forgotten aspect of infrastructure as code and, we believe, crucial enough to be called out.

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