Chapter 14: Logging and Light Observability
14.8 Light observability vocabulary
By Ravindra Bagale · Last updated:
| Word |
Beginner meaning |
| Metrics |
Numbers over time (ch13) |
| Logs |
Event text/JSON (this chapter) |
| Traces |
Per-request spans across services (awareness) |
| Observability |
Ability to ask new questions from telemetry |
Interviews like: "We use metrics to detect, logs to explain, traces to follow the path." Keep it that simple unless they dig deeper.