# observability – Food Fight

- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #115（2018-03-25）
- **作者**: Nell Shamrell-Harrington, with Nathen Harvey, Charity Majors, and Jamie Osler
- **链接**: http://foodfightshow.org/2018/03/observability.html

## 简介

I had some extra time for reviewing content this week, and I took the opportunity to listen to this episode of the Food Fight podcast, with a focus on observability. The discussion is really excellent, and there are some really thought-provoking moments.

## 正文

Join Charity Majors on the Food Fight Show as we define, discuss, and digest Observability.

## Panel

- Nell Shamrell-Harrington [github](https://github.com/nellshamrell) ,[twitter](https://twitter.com/nellshamrell) ,[blog](http://nellshamrell.com/)
- Nathen Harvey [github](http://github.com/nathenharvey) ,[twitter](http://twitter.com/nathenharvey) ,[blog](http://nathenharvey.com)
- Charity Majors [github](https://github.com/charity) ,[twitter](https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy)
- Jamie Osler [github](https://github.com/josler) ,[twitter](https://twitter.com/jjosler)

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## Show Notes

- [What is Observability?](https://honeycomb.io/observability/)  - Monitoring, Metrics, Log Aggregation
  - Focus your energy on instrumentation, resilience to failure, and making it fast and safe to deploy and roll back.
  - Gather absolutely as much context as possible.
  - Instrumentation is just as important as unit tests.
    - Does this mean we need to reconsider the way applications are built? Do we need to start constructing observable applications? How?
  - The Business Side
- [`o11y`?](https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/908493669518290944?lang=en)
- What products, or sorts of products, are gaining traction in observability?
- Who are the influencers in this space?
- What blogs, papers, books should be on my Observability reading list?

## Picks

#### Nell

#### Jamie

#### Charity

#### Nathen

- [DevOpsDays: Baltimore](https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-baltimore/welcome/)
- Sleep!

## Download

The Food Fight Show is brought to you by [Nathen Harvey](https://twitter.com/nathenharvey) and [Nell Shamrell](https://twitter.com/nellshamrell) with help from other hosts and the awesome community of Chefs.

The show is sponsored, in part, by [Chef](http://www.chef.io).

Feedback, suggestions, and questions:  [info@foodfightshow.com](mailto:info@foodfightshow.com) or  [http://github.com/foodfight/showz](http://github.com/foodfight/showz).