Observability: The Modern Surveillance Approach for the Cloud Era

Today, it has become common practice to use the public cloud as the basis for running applications. With more organisations also leveraging containers in production environments, how can you achieve visibility across your infrastructure and application portfolio? You need something that can "observe everything" and deliver analytics that will help you get to the issue-area quickly. This session will cover: - An overview of the concept of "observability”, an approach that has been attracting attention in recent years with both application and operations teams - How observability enables organisations to monitor real-time everything from full-stack applications to cloud infrastructures, so that you can anticipate possible problems, take corrective action and prevent unexpected disruptions - The key features you should look for in an observability solution and how this applies to open-source vs commercial models - How you can make open-source tools like Prometheus enterprise ready