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CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-004 · Domain 3: Operations

Observability: metrics, logs and traces; dashboards, baselines and alert thresholds

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Observability is your ability to understand what a system is doing, and why, from the data it produces. Monitoring tells you that something is wrong; good observability helps you find out what. It rests on three kinds of telemetry, often called the three pillars.

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