TLDR; The Facts About APM vs Observability

How do you define observability? Let’s clear up the confusion.

Because there are so many definitions of observability, it’s blurring the truth behind the term. Certain vendors (such as traditional monitoring software vendors) are contributing to the murkiness, labeling what they offer as “observability,” when it doesn’t actually provide true observability functions. 

Don’t let this mess your teams up. Learn what observability looks like, and how it can help organizations scale successfully while their systems perform as needed.