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Application Performance Monitoring vs. Observability: the Differences Explained

In modern software development, the pursuit of optimal performance, seamless user experiences, and robust systems has led to the rise of advanced monitoring and analysis methodologies. Application performance monitoring (APM) and observability are two closely related approaches with key differences.

APMObservability

What Does a Good Trace Look Like?

Any generic trace can answer how slow a request was or when the first error occurred. We want better than

Distributed TracingObservability

What Is Real User Monitoring (RUM)?

Your customers rely on your web and mobile frontends to access your products. That means these services are the most

Observability

Observability Glossary

Confused by all the terminology surrounding observability? Get the definitions and clarifications you need in our observability glossary.

Observability

How to Gain In-Depth Observability of Your Kubernetes Clusters

In the breakneck world of modern software development, it’s hard to find teams that don’t use microservices, containers, and Kubernetes

Engineering Best PracticesKubernetesObservability

What Is Platform Engineering? A Getting Started Guide

Modern software development can often feel like orchestrated chaos, and with good reason. The processes, tools, and SaaS services are

Engineering Best Practices

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry

No one ever said observability would be easy, right? But OpenTelemetry is a significant step towards “easier” observability because it’s

Engineering Best PracticesInstrumentationObservabilityOpenTelemetry

Getting Started With Distributed Tracing

The more complex the software, the more likely it is to break, so the question facing modern DevOps teams today

Distributed TracingEngineering Best PracticesObservability

How Observability Helps With Incident Response

No one knows what they don’t know. That rather elusive statement is at the heart of one of the biggest

Engineering Best PracticesIncident ResponseObservability

Understanding High Cardinality and Its Role in Observability

Complex distributed systems generate vast amounts of granular data that is ideal for diagnostics. Most of the time… But it

Engineering Best PracticesHigh CardinalityObservability

SLOs, SLAs, SLIs: What’s the Difference?

At the end of the day, so much of software development is wrapped up in two basic concepts: happy customers

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilitySLOs

What Is Observability Engineering?

Although it may seem like something out of fantasy, it is possible to find out what you don’t know you

Engineering Best PracticesObservability