Observability¶ ↑Observability is a toolkit for instrumenting code to make it more observable, following the principle of Observability-Oriented Design as expressed by Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy).
Its goals are [stolen from charity.wtf/2019/02/05/logs-vs-structured-events/]:
Emit a rich record from the perspective of a single action as the code is executing.
Emit a single event per action per system that it occurs in. Write it out just before the action completes or errors.
Bypass local disk entirely, write to a remote service.
Sample if needed for cost or resource constraints. Practice dynamic sampling.
Treat this like operational data, not transactional data. Be profligate and disposable.
Feed this data into a columnar store or honeycomb or similar
Now use it every day. Not just as a last resort. Get knee deep in production every single day. Explore. Ask and answer rich questions about your systems, system quality, system behavior, outliers, error conditions, etc. You will be absolutely amazed how useful it is … and appalled by what you turn up. 🙂
Ruby 2.6
$ gem install observability
You can check out the current development source with Mercurial via its project page. Or if you prefer Git, via its Github mirror.
After checking out the source, run:
$ rake newb
This task will install any missing dependencies, run the tests/specs, and generate the API documentation.
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