Observability (DevOps)
The combination of logs, metrics, and traces that lets an engineering team understand what a running system is actually doing — the infrastructure/application counterpart to LLM Observability.
Observability platforms ingest the three core telemetry types — logs, metrics, and distributed traces — and correlate them so an engineer can go from "something's slow" or "something errored" to a root cause quickly. The category spans CI/CD pipeline tooling (build/deploy visibility) through to full application performance monitoring (APM) and infrastructure monitoring, and pricing is typically metered on ingested data volume or hosts monitored, which can scale unpredictably with traffic — worth modeling before committing to a tier. See also LLM Observability for the equivalent problem scoped specifically to LLM/agent applications.
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