Microservices and highly distributed systems are extremely complex. There are many moving parts including the applications themselves, the infrastructure, versions, and configurations. Often, this results in difficulties tracking what is actually in production or other development environments (QA, Development, Pre-Prod), which in turn becomes problematic when you need to troubleshoot your systems.
In this article, I will provide some clarity around the different use cases for monitoring and observability, when each is relevant, and how to use them properly.
