Cloud

Observability

Terms

7 terms

  • APM

    APM (application performance monitoring) measures how cloud applications behave for users by tracking latency, errors, throughput and code-level traces.

  • Distributed tracing

    Distributed tracing follows a single request across services and records each step as timed spans, revealing where latency and errors arise.

  • Error budget

    An error budget is the amount of unreliability a service may spend in a period, equal to one minus its SLO target, used to balance releases…

  • Logs

    Logs in observability are timestamped records of discrete events emitted by applications and infrastructure, used to debug, audit and explain system behavior.

  • Metrics

    Metrics in observability are numeric measurements collected at intervals as labeled time series, used to track system health, alert on problems and spot trends.

  • OpenTelemetry

    OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral standard and toolkit for generating, collecting and exporting traces, metrics and logs from cloud applications.

  • Traces

    Traces in observability record the path of one request through a system as a tree of timed spans, showing where time was spent and where errors…