Sight Beyond Sight: See it All Through Observability by Leandro Melendez

Observability is more than metrics and logs—it's knowing your system's status without checking under the hood. From QA processes to daily life, learn to enhance awareness and efficiency. Join us to master the principles and see your world with new clarity. #Observability #DevOps

1. A ScyllaDB Community
Sight beyond sight!
See it all through Observability
Leandro Melendez
Grafana Labs

2. Leandro Melendez (He, him)

Dev Advocate
■Also known as Señor Performo
■P99s are awesome to get the big picture!
■I like to do video content and even with SFX
■I love to read, hike, and investing stuff

3. What is o11y?

4. Defining Observability
Observability:
The ability to deduce the internal states of a
system from information available externally.

Also known as o11y.

5. Easier, let's observe o11y

6. How to get o11y?
1.Telemetry
2.Instrumentation
3.Storage?
4.Monitoring

7. 1.Telemetry
DISTANT
TRANSMISION OF
SOMETHING'S
STATE OR
METRICS

8. 2. Instrumentation
IMPLEMENT
MEASURING AND
TRANSMITTING
DEVICES

9. 3. Storage
STORE TELEMETRY
MEASUREMENTS
FOR LATER USE

PULL VS PUSH

10. 4. Monitoring
VISUAL
INTERPRETATION
OF TELEMETRY
DATA TO EASILY
BE OBSERVED

11. EXAMPLE

13. O11y pillars!

14. The 3 pillars of observability
Logs
Metrics
Traces

15. LOGS
Events registries

Lots of plain text

Not so easy to index
but has tons of info
METRICS
Values or numbers
paired with tags/labels

Mostly numbers or
variables, not text

Faster to search, list,
modify. Numbers alone
don't say much
TRACES
Tell a story under a
span

Mix logs & metrics
linked together

Can take lots of space
but also tells deep
stories

16. LOGS

METRICS

TRACES

17. Tools!

19. Keep in mind with o11y
■Don't drown in o11y
■Measure only indispensable
■For everything else - ALERTS
■Just don't over alert
■Use the powers of SLO and SLA

20. Make sure - Accessible o11y
■Everyone in the teams/org must be
able to consume observability
■Make it:
●Accessible
●Understandable
●Useful

21. I hope this
sounded good!
looked
o11y-ed!

22. Thank you! Let’s connect.
Leandro Melendez - Señor Performo
[email protected]
@SrPerf
www.srperf.com