Monitoring, Observability, and Operational Resilience

Sustaining operational resilience is widely discussed yet remains poorly defined. At times it has been suggested to denote the ability to respond to unplanned events, while at others it has been equated with disaster recovery, business continuity, or even just predictable outages. This paper takes the more detailed exploration of operational resilience introduced in Baker et al. under the term observability-driven reliability. This perspective stems from a thorough analysis of observing systems and the role they play in operational resilience.