Current events have brought an even stronger push by many enterprises to scale operations across cloud-native and distributed environments. To survive and thrive, companies must now seriously look at cloud-native technologies—such as API management and integration solutions, cloud-native products, integration platform as a service (iPaaS), and low-code platforms—that are easy to use, accelerate time to market, and enable re-use and sharing. However, due to their distributed nature, these cloud-native applications have a higher level of management complexity, which increases as they scale.
Building observability into applications allows teams to automatically collect and analyze data about applications. Such analysis allows us to optimize applications and resolve issues before they impact users. Furthermore, it significantly reduces the debugging time of issues that occur in applications at runtime. This allows developers to focus more on productive tasks, such as implementing high-impact features.