observability
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.66 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The ability to collect data about the execution of distributed programs, especially the interaction among its components.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "“In 2018, we saw many companies that are cloud-native and in the tech sector talking about observability,” he said. “Last year, we saw this becoming more mainstream, with large organizations adopting cloud-native technologies and becoming interested in observability.”"
- "Observability is defined as the ability to understand the internal state of a system by only looking at external outputs of the system. […] Observability builds on monitoring and enables you to gain insights about the internal state of your application."
- "In other words, SREs are directly responsible for the effectiveness of observability."
Etymology
Etymology tree English observe Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English observability From observe + -ability.