From the course: DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability
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Choosing your observability stack
From the course: DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability
Choosing your observability stack
- [Instructor] Throughout this course, we have mostly worked with Grafana Cloud, but I have given examples of several observability tools, as there are many options available in the market. I made the decision to work with Grafana Cloud because I wanted to demonstrate how powerful your observability signals can be when you're able to create them easily. This brings me to the considerations you should have when choosing your observability stack. The first thing you should consider is one pane of glass. As you've seen throughout the course, having your data in one pane of glass simply means you can interact with all your observability signals in one place. This means you should be looking out for tooling that provides you with this option, as it reduces context switching for you and your team, and also helps you to triage and troubleshoot easily, since all your signals are in one place and easy to correlate. The next thing…
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