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Beyond the 3 Pillars of Observability

Today, the DevOps movement and cloud-native architecture are enabling digital businesses to become more competitive, which is driving a need for great observability.

Engineers now need to think about building systems that are easier to observe. To better understand how observability impacts outcome, engineers should think about the answers to three critical questions: Regardless of what instrumentation exists, and what tools or solutions are employed, the ability to answer the above three questions is what observability should be focused on.

Instead of the three pillars of observability, we’ve developed an approach to observability that is focused on the outcomes instead of the inputs, and we call it the three phases.

Keys to success:Tools and data: Great observability can lead to competitive advantage, world-class customer experiences, faster innovation, and happier developers.