From the course: DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability

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Observability architecture

Observability architecture

- [Instructor] Observability can be implemented in so many ways. There are different methodologies and tools, so this means that there are several architectures you could implement to get your system to be observable. Before we delve into the course, I wanted us to run through different possible architectures you might end up with, as it could often take a while to wrap one's head around the technicalities of implementing observability. Regardless of how you implement observability, there are some common stages across the different architecture options. The first is instrumentation or configuration. That is, writing your code in a way that it creates and can export observability signals, metrics, logs, traces, and events. The configuration aspect is applicable to infrastructure, which would often need some settings configured to expose metrics or logs. The collection and processing is where you're running some sort of…

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