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In the past few years, the complexity of systems architectures drastically increased, especially in distributed, microservices-based architectures. It is extremely hard and, in most cases, inefficient to debug and watch logs, particularly when we have hundreds or even thousands of microservices or modules. In this article, I will describe what observability and monitoring systems, the patterns of a good observability platform, and the observability subsystem may look like.