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Observability - Coggle Diagram
Observability
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Notes
- Monitoring is reactive, and Observability is proactive
- monitoring tells you what is wrong, while observability answers the how and why of the wrong
- Monitoring acts as an early warning system and observability helps to pinpoint the origin of the problem and how to fix it
- Monitoring notifies that system is at fault (high CPU)
Observability tells you why a system is at fault.
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Memory, CPU utilization rates, and cache hit ratio are often tracked when monitoring a database. Thus, alerts are usually set on them to ensure they don’t exceed the threshold. An alert stating that the CPU utilization has increased or that the cache hit ratio has decreased could be a sign of a poorly written or optimization query. However, an observability tool would need to be utilized for you to be sure.
- Collect 2. Monitoring 3. Analyze