Observability Engineering

Majors, C., Fong-Jones, & Miranda, G. (2022). Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence. O'Reilly Media.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2022

Link

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25337316Wmatched

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engineering_design, mathematics, neuroscience, statistics_experimental_design, systems_cybernetics

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• Linearity
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• Measurement Uncertainty and Observational Noise
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• Monitoring
  • A system can be highly observable but rarely monitored; conversely, a system can be monitored despite poor intrinsic observability (requiring manual probing or external inference).

    This sourceDistinguishes observability (the system property of inferring internal state from outputs) from monitoring (the operational practice of inspecting those outputs); defines high-cardinality, high-dimensional telemetry as the substrate for modern monitoring.

• Observability
  • Observability is the structural property that determines whether a system's internal state can be inferred from its externally-visible outputs over time such that: (1) a system is observable when, given the full history of outputs over any sufficiently-long interval, the full internal state at any time can be uniquely reconstructed — formally, for a linear time-invariant system \(\dot x = Ax + Bu, \; y = Cx + Du\), observability reduces to the rank condition on the observability matrix \(\mathcal{O} = [C; CA; CA^2; \ldots; CA^{n-1}]^T\) (full rank \(\Leftrightarrow\) observable); for nonlinear systems, the analogous notion uses Lie derivatives and the observability rank condition; in software engineering, observability is measured by whether outputs (logs, metrics, traces, profiles) suffice to diagnose any failure mode without additional instrumentation (Majors-Miranda-Fong-style operational definition)
• Predictive Coding
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