The document discusses observability in software testing, focusing on its importance, pillars, and platforms. It highlights the benefits of observability for proactive quality assurance and business agility. Additionally, advancements such as AI and machine learning in observability solutions are mentioned.

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O B S E R V A B I L I T Y I N S O F T W A R E
T E S T I N G
Sumit Mundhada
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What is Observability
Why Observability
What are the pillars of Observability
Observability and Monitoring
Platforms and Tools
Advancement in Observability
Observability Benefits
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A G E N D A

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• Collecting data such as
logs, traces, metrics
Understanding the
behavior of your
system
W H A T ? W H Y ?
Why?
Cloud-Native
Microservice
Architecture
Containers
DevSecOps
Business
Agility
User
Experience
Proactive
not
Reactive
Observabilit
y

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O B S E R V A B I L I T Y P I L L A R S
• Errors, Exceptions, Information, etc.
Logs
• Storage, CPU, Memory, etc.
Metrics
• Provide information across other components, services
Traces
Any
Challenges
Provide
details for
How/Why
How do they
work?

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O B S E R V A B I L I T Y A N D M O N I T O R I N G
Defects/Issues
you expect or
has probability to
occur
Monitoring
Finding
Defects/Issues
not able to
anticipate along
with RCA
Observability
What Why

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P L A T F O R M S A N D T O O L S
Please note that these tools are just for reference, not in any specific
order.

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A D V A N C E M E N T I N O B S E R V A B I L I T Y
Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning
Generative AI
AI based observability solutions

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B E N E F I T S
Proactive Quality Assurance
Quality Products
Better RCA
Reduce time to market
Compliment Business Agility

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R E F E R E N C E S
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability_(software)
https://opentelemetry.io/
https://www.datadoghq.com/
https://newrelic.com/platform
https://www.dynatrace.com/
https://www.splunk.com/

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T H A N K Y O U
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Q & A