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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces. Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. Watch webinar now!

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Extending Vector with eBPF to inspect host and container performance

The Netflix TechBlog

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix.