# Twitter: mipsytipsy on monitoring vs observability

- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #105（2018-01-14）
- **作者**: —
- **链接**: https://mobile.twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/951343352359763968

## 简介

I don’t often do the Twitter thing, but this chain by Charity Majors is worth reading. Is that what they call it? a chain?

## 正文

![@mipsytipsy](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1576759705933819904/iDotz1Gw_normal.jpg)

How can you predict what data Future-You will need to have gathered to debug an unpredictable problem?  (And if you *could* predict the problem, why do you need a fancy debugging tool?)
I hear this a lot, and the answer gets at the heart of the difference btwn monitoring & o11y.

[6:41 AM · Jan 11, 2018](https://mobile.twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/951343352359763968)

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