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title: "Discussion on \"You Can't Manage What You Can't See: The Three Pillars of Observability\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"You Can't Manage What You Can't See: The Three Pillars of Observability\". Logs, metrics and traces explained. Covers Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, \ndistributed tracing, SLOs, error budgets and alerting for backend engineers."
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# [You Can't Manage What You Can't See: The Three Pillars of Observability](https://ajitabh.net/you-cant-manage-what-you-cant-see-three-pillars-of-observability?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Logs, metrics and traces explained. Covers Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, SLOs, error budgets and alerting for backend engineers.

Mar 26 · 10 min read · ajitabh.net  
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