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Observability

Observability

📖One-line summary

The ability to infer a system's inner state from outside via logs, metrics, and traces.

💡Easy explanation

The ability to know what's happening inside a running system from the outside. You need logs, metrics, and traces together.

Example

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Metrics

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Logs

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Traces

You only see the real cause when you look at all three together

Vibe coding prompt examples

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Write a minimal example that wires OpenTelemetry traces and metrics into a Next.js app.

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Design a middleware that captures observability for LLM calls — tokens, latency, cost, error rate.

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Write a guide that links traces, logs, and metrics so you can trace incidents quickly.

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