Best Of 2025: Making Observability Work: How Platform Engineers Can Improve Monitoring
Platform Engineering, December 11,2025
Observability has become a critical component of modern platform engineering, allowing teams to diagnose issues, optimize performance and maintain system reliability.
Unlike traditional monitoring, which alerts teams when something breaks, observability provides deeper insights into why failures occur and how systems behave under various conditions.
Anil Lingutla, director of CloudOps at TEKsystems, said large-scale platforms must focus on the right telemetry data to ensure effective observability.
'Key metrics to prioritize include CPU and memory usage, request rates, error rates and latency,' he said.