observabilitytools
Observability tools are software systems designed to collect, store, analyze, and visualize telemetry data from software applications and infrastructure. They support observability by aggregating information from metrics, logs, and traces to help teams understand system behavior, diagnose failures, and optimize performance. The three pillars—metrics, logs, and traces—provide complementary viewpoints: metrics offer time-series measurements, logs record discrete events, and traces reveal end-to-end request flows.
Telemetry data is produced by application code, services, containers, and infrastructure. It is gathered by agents,
An observability architecture typically comprises data ingestion, storage, processing, analysis, visualization, and alerting. Data can be
Categories and examples: metrics-focused tools such as Prometheus and VictoriaMetrics; log management systems such as Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana
Considerations when selecting tools include data volume and retention, cost, security and access control, deployment model