Grafana

Observability

The ability to understand a system's internal state from its external outputs, encompassing metrics, logs, and traces.

Monitoring

The continuous observation of system performance, availability, and health using automated tools and dashboards.

Logging

The practice of recording events, errors, and system activities for debugging, auditing, and analysis.

Distributed Tracing

A method of tracking requests as they flow through distributed systems to diagnose latency and failure points.

Metrics

Quantitative measurements collected over time to track system performance, health, and business outcomes.

Alerting

Automated notifications triggered when system metrics or conditions exceed predefined thresholds.

Prometheus

An open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit designed for reliability and scalability in cloud-native environments.

Error Budget

The maximum amount of time a service can be unavailable within a given period based on its SLO.

A structured review conducted after an incident to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.

A quantitative measure of some aspect of the level of service being provided.

An automated workflow that builds, tests, and deploys software changes from development to production.

A set of practices combining software development and IT operations to shorten the development lifecycle and deliver continuous value.

A system design approach that ensures a certain degree of operational continuity during a given measurement period.

Increasing the resources (CPU, RAM, storage) of an existing machine to handle more load.

A package manager for Kubernetes that simplifies the deployment and management of applications using charts.

A target value for a service level indicator that defines acceptable service performance.