# Observability

Concept · [Cloud, hosting and security](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cloud)

Also called: monitoring, logging, logs, tracing, telemetry, alerts

Being able to see what a running system is doing through its logs, [metrics](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/kpi) and traces, so a team can tell when something goes wrong and why.

**For example:** Error alerts show checkout failures started right after a [deploy](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/deployment), and the logs point to the broken line.

## Connects to (5)

- [Uptime](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/uptime): The share of time a service is working and reachable.
- [Production](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/production): The live version of your app that real customers use.
- [DevOps](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/devops): The practice, and job, of combining software development with running it in production: automating builds, tests and deployments and…
- [Graceful degradation](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/graceful-degradation): Designing a system so that when one part fails, the rest keeps working in a simpler way instead of breaking completely.
- [MLOps](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/mlops): The practices and tools for running machine learning models in production: versioning data and models, deploying them, monitoring quality…

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/observability