What is the difference between observability and monitoring in DevOps?

In the world of the software delivery process, observability and monitoring have become important terms, important when you’re discussing software development. It doesn’t matter how much hard work you put into creating good quality software applications, there will always be errors and bugs, like the rapid increase in users and the software application is becoming more complex. For all these reasons our system should be observable.

The software delivery culture is changing and it is shifting from monitoring to cloud-native. Although applications in both on-premises and cloud-native environments are expected to be highly available and resilient to failure, the methods that are used to achieve those goals are different. There are many benefits of monitoring such as improving productivity and performance, you can easily allocate resources according to the need of the users, you can easily detect and solve the problems before they affect your business, and you can better allocate time and upgrade to new projects.

What is observability in DevOps?

Monitoring the CI-CD pipeline requires each individual part of the pipeline to be observable. Each individual part of the pipeline must produce appropriate data to support automated problem detection and alerting, manual debugging when…