An Observability Platform is a software system that helps teams understand the health and behavior of applications, services, and infrastructure. It collects and analyzes information such as logs, metrics, and traces to show what is happening inside complex systems. By bringing these signals together, it helps identify performance problems, errors, unusual activity, and the possible causes of failures.
For example, an online retailer can use one to detect slow checkout services and trace the problem to a specific application component. This is useful for faster troubleshooting and reliable operations. Applications include cloud systems, distributed applications, DevOps, IT operations, and service monitoring.
