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Understand service health, incidents, and the telemetry used to investigate production systems. Connect reliability outcomes to engineering decisions.

Terms beginning with T

10 terms

  • Tail-based sampling

    Tail-based sampling is a sampling decision made after later spans and overall trace outcome are available.

    Reliability and observability

  • Telemetry cost

    Telemetry cost is the compute, network, storage, query, and operational expense of observability data.

    Reliability and observability

  • Telemetry signal

    Telemetry signal is a distinct form of machine-generated evidence such as a metric, log, trace, or profile.

    Reliability and observability

  • Termination drain

    Termination drain is a reliability concept used to describe a specific condition, control, or decision in the operation of software services.

    Reliability and observability

  • Threshold alert

    Threshold alert is an alert evaluated when a signal crosses a numeric boundary for a defined duration.

    Reliability and observability

  • Trace context

    Trace context is the small set of identifiers and flags passed between components so telemetry can associate an operation with its trace and parent span. It allows distributed work to be represented as one connected execution.

    Reliability and observability

  • Trace ID

    Trace ID is the identifier shared by spans belonging to one distributed operation.

    Reliability and observability

  • Trace sampling

    Trace sampling is selection of traces or spans to retain from a larger set of observed operations.

    Reliability and observability

  • Trace signal

    Trace signal is evidence that records the path and timing of one operation across services, queues, and databases.

    Reliability and observability

  • Trace waterfall

    Trace waterfall is a time-aligned view showing span nesting, overlap, waiting, and duration.

    Reliability and observability