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Observability: A Critical Practice to Enable Digital Transformation

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The road to digital transformation isn’t straightforward, but it gets easier with DevOps and cloud computing. As critical enablers of digital transformation, DevOps and Cloud Computing. Such is observability, a critical practice to enable digital transformation by providing a real-time performance analysis. Simply put, observability is the ability to evaluate the internal modules of a system by inspecting the system’s overall output.

DevOps specialists often lack proper visibility in their CI/CD pipeline. If this persists, your end-users will find the bottleneck before you do! When it comes to understanding observability, you’ll come across several definitions on the internet. Moreover, they morph all the time. Nevertheless, to make someone understand the essence of observability, the general idea is to empower IT professionals to ask questions about applications and the infrastructure that runs them.

You often must have encountered instances where a DevOps engineer says they can’t see persisting issues. When an IT professional doesn’t have access to a platform or a tool that can answer questions you can’t think of, you’ll be rendered blind. Asking the right questions when a digital infrastructure is up and running will help you to gauge downtime or misconfigurations, among other issues. That’s what observability is about, answering questions about the digital infrastructure as well as being able to ask questions. Learn more about the blog: https://cloudzenix.com/observability-a-critical-practice-to-enable-digital-transformation/

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