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Principles of Observability (ignite)

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Princples of Observability ! Daniel “phrawzty” Maher Community Team

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Observability ≠ Monitoring Photo: CC-BY-2.0 Steve Parker (https://flic.kr/p/afiseM) @phrawzty // Datadog 2

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Observability ≠ Dashboards Photo: CC-BY-2.0 Jacob Frey 4A (https://flic.kr/p/CkXwn6) @phrawzty // Datadog 3

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Observability ≠ DevOps Photo: © DevOpsDays Zurich (https://flic.kr/p/TNbJPm) @phrawzty // Datadog 4

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Observability is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. Photo: CC-BY-2.0 Tim Rechmann (https://flic.kr/p/2kvnyb3) @phrawzty // Datadog 5

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Measure Photo: CC-BY-2.0 Andrew Malone (https://flic.kr/p/aqhCH8) @phrawzty // Datadog 6

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State Photo: CC-BY-2.0 BenGrantham (https://flic.kr/p/eQA3Zk) @phrawzty // Datadog 7

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System Photo: CC-BY-2.0 Krzysztof Pędrys (https://flic.kr/p/4tUNYV) @phrawzty // Datadog 8

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Knowledge Photo: CC-BY-2.0 Fredrik Rubensson (https://flic.kr/p/dC1gvd) @phrawzty // Datadog 9

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Output Photo: CC-BY-2.0 Rob Brewer (https://flic.kr/p/VXgQqu) @phrawzty // Datadog 10

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Context is important (…and control theory is vast) Photo: CC-BY-SA dilettantiquity (https://flic.kr/p/ppsKuz) @phrawzty // Datadog 11

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State observer Photo: CC-BY-SA John Dyhouse (https://flic.kr/p/7ErCMc) @phrawzty // Datadog 12

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Multi & Bounding observer Interval & Luenberger observers Positive systems! Moving horizon estimations! Kalman filters in general topological spaces! Photo: CC-BY-SA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_observer @phrawzty // Datadog 13

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“The Three Pillars” Photo: CC-BY-2.0 Andrew (https://flic.kr/p/xy6rdF) @phrawzty // Datadog 14

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Events, Signals, Telemetry, Paths, Stories… Photo: CC-BY-2.0 Steve Jurvetson (https://flic.kr/p/2mbX3RZ) @phrawzty // Datadog 15

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Understanding and Comprehension Photo: CC-ND-2.0 Hans Splinter (https://flic.kr/p/2kLH9NF) @phrawzty // Datadog 16

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Unknown unknowns Photo: CC-BY-SA Stinging Eyes (https://flic.kr/p/9kreao) @phrawzty // Datadog 17

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Ok, so, practically-speaking, what is observability?! Photo: CC-BY-2.0 Becks (https://flic.kr/p/p1dHTN) @phrawzty // Datadog 18

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Observer / observed relationship Photo: CC-BY-SA Matt Brown (https://flic.kr/p/2hwn1DV) @phrawzty // Datadog 19

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Observability as a property of a system is important—but so is the observer’s capacity to make use of that property. Photo: Public Domain fdctsevilla (https://flic.kr/p/23rPAvU) @phrawzty // Datadog 20