Splunk: Going from Monitoring to Observability

In today’s complex world of cloud-native applications, with microservices, ephemeral execution and elastic behavior, we need observability.

But we already monitor our systems. In fact, observability starts with monitoring. However, observability goes beyond simple monitoring, to give you greater operational insight, leading to shorter incidents, fewer quality problems, a better product, and happier customers.

So, how do we get from monitoring to observability? What are the differences and extensions we need to consider and how can observability move us to an active response state? We will investigate the 5 characteristics that you need in moving from the known status of your environment to discovering and responding to the unknown unknowns that we need to respond to in a timely manner.

During this discussion, you will

• Learn what observability is and why it is increasingly important
• Understand the telemetry needs of observability and how monitoring extends into this space
• Discover how to move from the monitored knowns into the observability unknown unknowns