Observability - Everything You Need To Know
information age, Wednesday, August 16,2023
Morgan Mclean, Director of Product Management at cybersecurity leader, Splunk, tells Information Age about all things observability
You may have heard it in passing or been somewhat confused by it, but observability could be a game-changer for your business. Morgan Mclean, Director of Product Management at Splunk, talks through everything you need to know.
For the uninitiated, could you tell us what observability is?
There's this rote definition of the ability to observe any system and understand how it works, which can be applied to anything like how our car functions, how a clothing factory functions, things like that. But I think in this space, what we're referring to is the ability to observe how a set of services and infrastructure - basically a giant web application - functions, so that our customers can better understand what they've built, its current status, things that might break it. Or, if it's broken, how they can fix it. It's super important for Splunk's traditional set of end users, which is a mix of security and operators, and to some extent developers, though it tends to be more focused on developers and system operators.