Observability

Qualities of a platform that lend to its understandability. Such qualities are:

• Logging is in place for all services.
  • Specifically, data ingress or egress for all services should emit a log with the canonical ID of the data.
  • Log streams should be collected via a log aggregator.
  • The log aggregator should allow searching across logs at a minimum.
• Alerting is configurable – escalations are in place to people who can diagnose problems as them emerge in realtime.
• The platform is able to provide health and liveness checks.
• Graphing and support for custom events. This is one of the easiest way to correlate multiple data streams and see performance relationships in real time.

Further Reading

• Splunk
• Dynatrace
• Honeycomb