Community
- Command Central
- MVP Program
- Monthly Mission
- Blogs
- Groups
- Events
- Media Vault
Products
- Observability
- Network Management
- Application Management
- IT Security
- IT Service Management
- System Management
- Database Management
Content Exchange
- SolarWinds Platform
- Server & Application Monitor
- Database Performance Analyzer
- Server Configuration Monitor
- Network Performance Monitor
- Network Configuration Manager
- SQL Sentry
- Web Help Desk
Free Tools & Trials

Are you familiar with the term observability as it applies to network infrastructure management?

danielleh

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

andynash68

I'm assuming it means seeing all the network detail end to end

jcrhoten

"Observability" seems to be a marketing (made up word) but I'm hoping that it means we're able to tap the telemetry of an infrastructure component. The stream is only as good as our ability to interpret the health of the component and how it contributes to the overall operation of the system or service being offered. I'm confident Solarwinds offers a product that can help us achieve higher degrees of "observability".

DaHaole

Observability and monitoring complement each other, with each one serving a separate objective. Monitoring is a subset of and key action for observability. You can only monitor an object that is observable. Monitoring tracks the overall health of an application. It collects data on how the system is performing in terms of access speeds, connectivity, downtime, and bottlenecks. It then tells you “when” something is wrong. Observability, on the other hand, drills down into the “what” and “why” of application functions, by providing granular and relative understanding into its precise failure modes. While monitoring provides reactions only for known issues or incidents, software instrumented for observability allows developers to ask new questions to debug a problem or gain understanding into the general state of what a dynamic object with changing problems and unknown discrepancies should be typically.

dutchie

I assume visibility into dependencies and health of the network infrastructure.

jwlccsi

Measuring the internal state of a system based solely on its outputs.

graywolfman

Observability, to me, means being able to get metrics out of a device, whether logical or physical. This should be errors, overflows, buffering, packet drops, losses, CPU usage, memory usage, temperature, fans, PSU status, etc.

pgaryga

Observability provides an end-to-end view of processes that are related to systems and network components.

David.Yu

status of endpoints and traffic levels

davej

From experience, deriving network status by observing how it is behaving (What we see as output)

ecklerwr1

Being able to see into the cloud would seem to require some monitoring VM inside the cloud I assume?

Bill

familyofcrowes

seeing the changes, in this case flow pattern changes, new pattern etc...

donrobert5

nice