# A Software Engineer's Guide to Observability

DevFeed: [A Software Engineer's Guide to Observability](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-software-engineer-s-guide-to-observability-23696.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://engineering.theblueground.com/a-software-engineers-guide-to-observability/>)

Author: Stratos Pavlakis

Published: 2025-09-17T08:04:24Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blueground Engineering blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blueground-engineering-blog.md>)

Topics: [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [log management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/log-management.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [SRE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sre.md>)

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## AI overview

A practical guide for Engineering Managers and SREs on observability, explaining when to use logs, tracing, and metrics. It provides a high-level framework before covering tools such as OpenTelemetry, ELK, and Datadog, with policies and reference implementations.

## Source excerpt

A practical observability guide for Engineering Managers & SREs: understand when to use logs, tracing, and metrics, with policies, examples, and AI-driven SRE.