Observability & Monitoring
Overview

Observability & Monitoring

You can't fix what you can't see.


Topics

ChapterWhat It Covers
Observability FundamentalsLogs, metrics, and traces; SLI/SLO/SLA and error budgets; alerting philosophy; liveness vs readiness; dashboards

Why This Matters

You can't fix what you can't see, and you can't see what you didn't instrument. Every design interview eventually asks "how would you know if this broke?" — the answer lives in this chapter.