Observability Engineering
by Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda · O'Reilly Media
Defines observability as the ability to ask new questions of production systems, and explains structured events, high-cardinality data, service level objectives, and the shift away from dashboards. Includes guidance on adoption inside existing teams.
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