Observability Glossary

o11y

Observability is commonly abbreviated as o11y. This comes from a software engineering convention to shorten longer words by replacing the middle letters with the number of letter between the first and last letter in the word, hence "observability" can be abbreviated as "o11y".

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Observability

Observability is the ability to understand how your application is working and behaving in production through telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces, wide events, etc.). It enables you detect, diagnose and resolve issues in your app before they impact your users and become problems.