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Understand service health, incidents, and the telemetry used to investigate production systems. Connect reliability outcomes to engineering decisions.
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8 termsLeader election
Leader election is a reliability concept used to describe a specific condition, control, or decision in the operation of software services.
Reliability and observabilityLiveness probe
Liveness probe is a test of whether a process should be restarted because it no longer functions at a basic level.
Reliability and observabilityLog enrichment
Log enrichment is adding context to a log record such as service identity, deployment, or correlation fields.
Reliability and observabilityLog level
Log level is a classification such as debug, info, warning, or error indicating intended operational importance.
Reliability and observabilityLog parsing
Log parsing is conversion of raw log text or fields into a structured searchable representation.
Reliability and observabilityLog retention
Log retention is the policy determining how long logs remain available and under what archive or deletion rules.
Reliability and observabilityLog signal
Log signal is a timestamped record of an event or state transition emitted by software or infrastructure.
Reliability and observabilityLog-based alert
Log-based alert is a trigger based on matching log patterns, counts, rates, or structured conditions.
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