By Bob Brodie, SUMO Heavy Co-founder and CTO

Observability is a set of DevOps practices that augment monitoring and lead to the ability to perform more frequent deployments of higher quality code. At its core, observability comes down to using logging, monitoring, and tracing to answer questions about your environments and applications. The analysis is often performed in real-time (or near real-time) dashboards.

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