Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now What is observability? Software monitoring on steroids Observability is an increasingly vital consideration for software engineers looking to build better, more stable applications. Here is everything you need to know about observability Credit: Dreamstime The term “observability” started to gain serious momentum in software engineering circles around 2018, as a natural evolution of monitoring practices. By bringing together the raw outputs of metrics, events, logs, and traces, software developers could start to gain a real-time picture of how their software systems are performing and where issues might be occurring.