Monitoring 101: Observability for DevOps

Monitoring 101: Observability for DevOps

September 25, 2025

You can’t improve what you don’t measure. That’s why monitoring and observability are at the heart of DevOps success.

In this post, I’ll break down the difference between:

  • Monitoring
  • Logging
  • Tracing

We’ll also explore tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack, and how to set up alerts for critical incidents.

“Great systems are the ones you can understand from the outside.”

By the end, you’ll have a clear idea of how to build a basic observability pipeline 📊