observability

Observability vs Monitoring

As engineers, we’ve all built dashboards, tuned alerts, and fought noisy monitoring systems. Tools like Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, or(…)

Elastic Observability for Application Servers: From Monitoring to Troubleshooting Intelligence

Application servers such as WebLogic, JBoss EAP, WildFly, Tomcat, and WebSphere still run critical business applications in many enterprise environments. However, they are often monitored like basic infrastructure components: CPU, memory, disk, process status, and sometimes port availability. This is(…)

Observability vs Monitoring

Both words, observability and monitoring, are often used interchangeably and without taking care of the difference. Monitoring Monitoring is alerting based on known, predefined metrics and log patterns. Events Examples of events are: Trigger a minor event(…)