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Observability vs. Monitoring: A Conceptual Framework

Understanding the philosophical shift from reactive monitoring to proactive understanding in cloud native systems

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Sharon Sahadevan
Jul 15, 2025
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The Problem Space: When Systems Become Unknowable

In the early days of computing, our systems were simple enough that we could understand them completely. A web server, a database, maybe a load balancer. When something broke, we knew where to look because we knew how everything worked.

Today's cloud native systems have shattered this illusion of complete …

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