Observability is the ability to understand the internal state of a system from the data it produces, mainly metrics, logs and traces. Unlike monitoring, which alerts when something crosses a known threshold, observability lets teams investigate failures nobody anticipated; for example, tracing why a payment takes several extra seconds as it passes through multiple services.
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Well-Architected Framework
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Multi-cloud
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FinOps
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CNAPP and CWPP
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