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Observability Primer

Observability lets you understand a system from the outside by letting you ask questions about that system without knowing its inner workings.

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/ ([2025-10-02 Thu])

Telemetry refers to data emitted from a system and its behavior. The data can come in the form of traces, metrics, and logs.

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/ ([2025-10-02 Thu])

SLI, or Service Level Indicator

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/ ([2025-10-02 Thu])

example SLI can be the speed at which a web page loads.

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/ ([2025-10-02 Thu])

SLO, or Service Level Objective

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/ ([2025-10-02 Thu])

means by which reliability is communicated to an organization/other teams. This is accomplished by attaching one or more SLIs to business value

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/ ([2025-10-02 Thu])

span represents a unit of work or operation

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/ ([2025-10-02 Thu])

span contains name, time-related data, structured log messages, and other metadata (that is, Attributes) to provide information about the operation it tracks.

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/ ([2025-10-02 Thu])

distributed trace, more commonly known as a trace, records the paths taken by requests (made by an application or end-user) as they propagate through multi-service architectures, like microservice and serverless applications

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/ ([2025-10-02 Thu])

trace is made of one or more spans

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/ ([2025-10-02 Thu])